New Bikes for £26

marvin

CHR15 wrote: »

From another Forum (thanks to tk421)

They were right about a couple of parts missing!!!

:rotfl:

And then Unipack sent it on too us after he returned it!

HaroldHamsun

A bike without pedals/gears/cranks/chain isn't a bike - it's scrap metal.

Sad to say,like quite a few of grabbits posted on here it's turned out to be a lottery rather than a bargain.

OO7

CHR15 wrote: »

From another Forum (thanks to tk421)

They were right about a couple of parts missing!!!

At least he's got handle bars on his!

Rotherham_Lass

Got mine today and yesterday. Got 2 mens bikes rather than a mens and a womens though. :rolleyes:

Both are pretty new. One is from Toysrus, the other from Freemans. The Toysrus one is missing its gears and chain - no idea how much they cost to replace? There are also some broken spokes on the wheels. The Freemans one was just missing its seat and pedals. Both have a few scratches but nothing major.

MAXMAX_3

marvin wrote: »

Right some of us are kicking up a fuss
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Now I have emailed back asking if this is the whole amount debited or just the 99p

The gamble is as some say a bike or a new bike for £50 (as a chap I know in a bike shop would say, it may look like a bike for £50 but its not really!). The gamble was really £50 (for putting right any faults on it) + purchase price for a bike that is valued a good deal more. The bike I received, if it was in new condition with all its bits, would retail for between £175 and £200. Now if my gamble had worked and I got a bike that could be fixed for minimal amount (as the blurb on the website intimates) then I would have indeed been happy. For some (tincat) this gamble has paid off big style, but like those dodgy fruit machines in pubs the winners are vastly outweighed by the losers and the only real winners are the machine owners. Unipack who won all round they have got us to pay their disposal costs, beats hiring a big Biffa Bin!

In the words of messers Gabriel, Banks, Collins, Rutherford, and Hacket "gambling only pays when you're winni
I have had the same email - probably delaying tatics as they do not reply when asked if this is for the whole amount.

Rotherham_Lass

marvin wrote: »

Well had a good look at mine now and priced up the bits required

OK
No gears
No chain
No breaks
No pedals
damaged saddle, damaged cables

This machine has so clearly been cannibalised for spares its un believable, not even enough on it for me to break for spares (except maybe the two wheels). Total cost to replace the missing bits, from decent bike retailer/repairer £90 - £120 (depending on the quality of parts) This could never be described, in the condition it is in as a "serviceable" bike!

One word of warning for those buing spare parts from this lot just make sure they are new and not the bits nicked off all the dud bikes they sell.

Any idea how much gears and a chain would cost??

bs7

alanwarwic wrote: »

the key word in the description was always 'There may be some parts missing'.

Surely the key word is "may". i.e. possibly, but not certain. Whereas it would seem that every one of the bikes has had some sort of part missing.

It's a great scam though

marvin

Rotherham_Lass wrote: »

Any idea how much gears and a chain would cost??

Chain £10 - £15 and its £15 £30 for a complete new chainset.

Disk breaks £30 each for half decent ones.

mucker_2

bs7 wrote: »

Surely the key word is "may". i.e. possibly, but not certain. Whereas it would seem that every one of the bikes has had some sort of part missing.

Not every bike has had missing parts. Read the various posts in this thread and you'll see that SOME, myself included, are more than happy.

Holmesy84

Mine came yesterday, one of them sabre ones, looked pretty decent. Condition wasn't too bad although no pedals and the handlebar was loose and couldn't tighten. Wouldn't have taken an awful lot to fix it.

As it is though I was after it for parts anyway and got a nice set of disc breaks, two new wheels and a whole bike in the shed should I need anything else.

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