NEW STUFF AT WAL-MART (Op Bike PICS ADDED)

[SlowPed]

Went back to Walmart a few days ago and they had sold about half of the ones I took pictures of about a week earlier. So that's about 40 bikes in 8 days. So I guess someone thinks they look good.

I'm not one of those. The top bar looks really strange to me. And even stranger in person than it looks in the pictures.

[Philphine]

been checking the walmart near where i live and the one near where i work and niether has gotten the 32. there's 4-6 more in the city, but not nearby. i still don't have a idea of how big it is, but i saw this on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLbr6vap3wE

don't know how tall he is, but he makes it look tiny. looks like he has the seatpost all the way out.

[yoothgeye]

That guy must be a giant because I looked idiotic on that bike, it's really big.

[sleepy]

Indeed, he must be very tall.....I have the Onyx 29er, I'm 6'2" and the bike seems huge ....its almost like riding a horse.

[kingfish254]

I stopped by Walmart today and they still don't have the 32er's yet.

They did have this Schwinn with red rims.



And a lime green and blue Thruster Fixie




And I saw this 29er Highroller at Target



As well as these bike picture frames at Target

[kngtmat]

That guy must be 8 feet tall because the trash/recycle cans like that here are 4 or 5 feet tall and that guy needs a banana seat to get more support because that seat post look too high that it might come off.



I actually like that green & blue fixie and I like the Onyx/Onex and the chrome pollished aluminum version but not so much the red, I still want an Onex bike to make a KITT bike and ad a scanner bar to the front & make a gullwing steering wheel.

[StepChld]

Well my Wally World had the new 32" bikes...in many colors.
We got'em in RED

We got'em in LIME GREEN

We got'em in ELECTRIC BLUE

And we got'em in WHITE

AND...they are BIG

I'm 5'10" by the way if that helps with a size comparison.
And apparently Wally World really doesn't want you to test ride them instore...go figure.

[clerkkent]

I'll wait until the 32s hit craigslist for the second hand market (usually 6 months after their initial release. I'll grab the wheels and front fork, and create a new frame. The stock 3 piece cranks on walmart bike are so... meh.

[yoothgeye]

I went by my Walmart this morning, a couple things:

1: There were a bunch of 32" cruisers there of all colors last week, now most of them are gone.

2: The "Thruster" branded bikes have decals that remove easily without leaving residue, thus the "remove these decals" sticker on the fixie. I bought a used Thruster BMX and the stickers almost fell off, so I peeled back corners on decals on the same BMX bike and the Fixie model and they are the same, easy to remove, no residue.

[Philphine]

I'm 5'10" by the way if that helps with a size comparison.

that helps. i'm 5'11" so i guess that's how it would fit me. i still want one eventually.

got an answer to my youtube post, that guy is 6'7".

[largek9]

I know there not new and their crappy quaility ,but I broke my other one last night (a year old) and what I didn't know it came with a couple master links! The last one didn't, to me thats worth the $4.96 just for the m/links!

[matco]

Has anyone seen the new Huffy Champion in person yet? It looks like an interesting frame design.......

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Huffy-Champion-26-Men-s-Bike-Red/19765342

[Philphine]

well, just came from my local to my house walmart and stopped by the bikes...

GO TO WALMART...CHECK THE BIKE RACK...IT'S THE LAW !!!

...and still none, but there was a guy loading bikes on the racks so i asked if he knew of any coming. he didn't know what i was talking about. i also don't think english was his first language so i couldn't get exactly what he knew about them.

but as i was walking away a couple of manager types checked on him so i asked them about it, but again, they had no idea what i was talking about and i had to explain it to them. all they could do was point me to the site to store kiosk. as best i can tell they're not on there either (i'm not good with computers though).

i hope some store gets them. this could be bad in two ways. hard to get new, and even if one pops up used, the seller can decide it's "rare" and want some crazy price for it. i'm on vacation though, so some time this week i'll wander around the city and see if any stores have them.

[Chips_Mahoy]

I was at Wally earlier and saw some interesting tires. They had a new version of the Panama Jack bike that had Fatti-O style brown tires w/ white walls and a different bike with 26x2.235 cream cruisers. There's a couple others but it's temping to buy one just for the wheels & tires! Here's some pics:

http://public.fotki.com/ChipsMahoy/bike ... ike-tires/

[Toeslider]

They have a cool Huffy bike now with a Shimano Nexus 3 speed internal hub. It has a lot of cool parts on it, EXCEPT that they are all embossed (grips, rack, chain guard) or embroidered (seat) with the huffy logo. I think even the tires might say Huffy on them.