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Poor quality childrens' bikes on sale
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Posted 5 years ago #
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Sounds like halfords?
Frames often sturdy. Which is good. Though can see heavy might put some kids off?
Components often made of cheese.
Having said this I think I have a good looking red apollo maybe for 8 year old hanging in garage. Comes with mudguards. Free to a good home.
The bikes under sprog cycle article were extortionately priced.
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Great range in the Bike Station right now. No dross. Reasonable prices. Pre-loved and fully serviced.
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Will try to get the one in my garage to bike station once the impressive range dies down
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I could ride it down the WoL to the depot if you like? I'll ride anything.
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Sneaky attempt to get a replacement bike there. Thought better of you.
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@iwrats might be on the small side. Has 24 gears hilariously, over fears for kids bike
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Gendered balance bikes also available...
https://twitter.com/lmacinnessnp/status/1074018869637992448?s=19
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Well, everyone knows that all little girls like pink and no little boys want a place to put random stuff.
Grr.
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Wow,@hankchief those two photos could form a question in a first year sociology of gender exam. Or a photography essay at the art school. I have two second year students in the house at the moment (only one light left on and one door left open and it was 't even the back door). Will test this out. They were making mulled wine last night but the mess is not too terrible. (So far, obviously some rooms and front yard still to be checked!
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Assuming no two year-old goes out and buys a £120 (really) balance bike, then this all purely for the parents' benefit. Who is it that buys this stuff and why? Clearly there must be a market for it - although there are also lots of "neutral" balance bikes available.
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Raleigh have offered bikes in two colours, one with a luggage option. No sex or gender is specified for either.
Councilor McInnes has projected their sex or gender ideas onto the bikes?
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@iwrats well that could be in the essay the explicit versus implicit gender balance/imbalance bikes.
I happen to think I suit pink.
I think Raleigh have gone for a gender split with those photos whereas Isla Balance Bikes are neutral (apart from their name)
Fast forwarding fifty years, the two lecky bikes at work are Step Thru or Hybrid - that is what I write on the docket when booking them but jeez the rest of the world (well Gordon the computer guy) Go for gender.
Since the council has employed a person to encourage council employees TO stop using their cars, it has become harder to get the lecky bikes as this person has them out a lot -I am saying we therefore need more.
They should all be step thru. You do not need aero on a lecky. You are more visible on a step thru and because the battery is above the back wheel the pannier rack is high and the briefcase that comes with the bikes sits very high on the rack. Getting on the hybrid is therefore tricky. I had to use the hybrid as the stepthru was out and failed to attach the bag correctly. Through not being used to it or maybe loosening it with a kick on trying to mount it. Anyway the bag flew off and skited down the road outside Drummond high school with my new laptop inside. Caramba. Fortunately the briefcase is padded and no car came along to run over the top of it.
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@gembo
Now I want a squadron of balance bikes, one in every shade of Pantone and I will quiz various groups who will assign a gender to the bikes and I will analyse the results with a pink computer.
When I was riding a blue metal-flake tricycle the other day some aero cyclists refused to acknowledge me in the ASZ. This made me sad on the outside, all fizzy giggles on the inside.
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I saw you out the window IWRATS on that very trike. I thought you looked splendid.i
@morningsider the boy on the blue Raleigh bike. In the EBC advert is too big for it.
I know bill the Raleigh rep, I shall mention this to him.
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to be fair to Cllr MacInnes
I don't like doing that because Picardy Isle of the Dead.
Interpretation of the EBC photos depends on our projecting gender ideas onto the children vis-a-vis clothes and hair length? I am well placed to do this as a rigid gender traditionalist and biological sex determinist, though pink was a boys' colour up to the 1930s in the UK?
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@iwrats, I liked that both bikes were accompanied by balloons on strings. The balloons colours were gender neutral.
I liked the wee girl's duffle coat. I like a duffle coat.
I can never remember which way round the names of the band I was in went. We were at one point (and this was pre Simpsons) a punk outfit called The Duffs and then an indie band called The Duffles.
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IWRATS - hang on, I thought the whole point of this nonsense is that pink computers don't actually do any analysing, as that is the job of the blue computers. (1)
Also - loving the image of you on the trike beside a very grumpy roadie. I'm picturing the trike with a comedy bike horn, which you give a few blasts while beside him. I don't care that this didn't happen, it just made me smile.
(1) Just to be completely clear (what with this being the internet and everything) I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS.
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Oh come on, you don't need to explicitly say that one bike is for girls and one for boys to reinforce gender stereotypes. Just look at that EBC page, where the bike the girl is riding is cute but the bike the boy is riding is epic. And while a little girl would likely be admired for wanting to go for the epic option, it would be a very single minded little boy who stuck it out with the pearly pink once he'd got into nursery and up against the opinions of society.
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As for the marketing - well Raleigh know very well that if they make a bike gender neutral it will pass through more hands (and make them less money) than if they make sure half the under five population won't be able to ride it as a hand-me-down
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No clown horn but I had a whole load of smiles off pedestrians as I tricycled around. I felt like royalty - absurd, isolated and basking in warmth from strangers.
(1) Just to be completely clear (what with this being the internet and everything) I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS.
Given the times we live in I should also make clear that I believe female human beings to be entirely human.Posted 5 years ago # -
Sally beat me to it on the language used by EBC. I would have also expected better from a bike shop that of all outfits ought to know how to spell 'brakes'. Poor proofreading.
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@sallyhinch, that is my point to the Raleigh rep, do they think they will make more money? As wont people buy the neutral ones to maximise potential resale. Isla for example do not lose much value over time IIRC.
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Councilor McInnes has projected their sex or gender ideas onto the bikes?
Oh, goody, my favourite response to this kind of thing is always a bit of "by pointing out sexism it is in fact YOU who are the sexist".
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@unhurt - to file under 'I don't see race'.
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"some aero cyclists refused to acknowledge me in the ASZ"
Was it an aero/non-aero thing, or was it just because they didn't know you?
BTW what is an "aero cyclist"? One who eats a particular chocolate flavoured snack bar while riding? Are there flake cyclists? Twirl cyclists? Wispa cyclists? Curly wurly cyclists? Toffo cyclists? Texan cyclists?
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was it just because they didn't know you?
Have I made a fool of myself? Again.
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The more I think about it the weirder it gets. The pink bike has a basket but if I understand correctly a common critique of women's clothes is a lack of pockets. Is there an expectation that males carry stuff in pockets and females in bags and baskets?
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IWRATS - trust me, the only stuff a two-year old carries about their person is not suitable for pockets, bags or baskets (especially baskets).
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