The Velodrome

That's quite cool. Islabikes make excellent kids bikes but are moving away from selling them and prefer renting them out instead. I dunno the pricing model, but the idea is you "buy" the bike at a discount (or perhaps pay a refundable deposit equal to a good chunk of the cost), then return it when your kid grows out of the bike.

Batman

I grew up riding walmart or similar bikes

I don't think I've ever seen a high quality kids bike

but even so, you could still pass those around for ages between kids.

my sister got my old bikes

up to a point, anyway. I'm a decent amount taller than her, so at some point it didn't become feasible for her to use my old bikes

alex

The idea is that nicer bikes are nicer to ride, and kids get into it more easily

I've been looking for a bike here for my daughter, but they're all super shitty Chinese things

brakes don't even close on half of them

Batman

3:33 AM

its pretty hard to justify the price of a nice bike i think, when you have so many other expenses with kids that age. so i get the program working, but i probably wouldn't do it if i had kids

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Criggie

6:33 AM

Maxis needs to re-release simcity (again) with bicycle lanes.

3 hours later…

alex

9:20 AM

@Batman, that's probably why they want to rent them out now.

Criggie

9:46 AM

Bother

Q: Replacing a bike with different tire sizes

I recently bought a bike with different tire sizes (20" rear and 18" front) now I want to replace both with a 16" tire is it possible? Also, the rear suspension mechanism is totally unknown to me even to the fellow whom I bought the bike from. Is i...

tire

Q: Bike modification/alteration

Base on the photos as shown, is it possible to apply the following modification/s and/or alteration/s: a. replacement of wheels from 20" rear-18" front to 16" both rear and front. b. installation of disc brake since the bike frame and fork is designed for rim brakes. c. replacement of the ...

tire brakes suspension

So, same person has asked the question twice

Both questions have some decent and relevant answers

but the second question has more info

which should be closed as the duplicate? The worse first one would be my choice to close.

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Móż

8:36 PM

@Criggie I agree... so I marked it thus.

Criggie

would be nice if there was a way to smash two questions together and merge the answer streams

call it the Ghostbuster.

2 hours later…

Móż

10:24 PM

@Criggie yeah.

Móż

10:48 PM

we have discovered that if you bounce data round the world enough times ... things happen slowly. Using a VPN to route traffic from a european server to AU, so that our "italian" mobile with data roaming has a connection that goes AU-EU-AU-EU-AU and then back... ping times get insane, and the mobile app under test is very, very slow.

Management tell us that they understand this, they just think it should be faster.

We are trying not to suggest moving Italy closer to Australia. Or just waiting, since Australia is moving north at a couple of millimetres a year.

Criggie

well you ARE going around. Try going straight through. nod

Móż

11:36 PM

finally a new answer so I can edit without bumping: bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/43272/…

my inner pedant was really struggling with this one. "How to blah?" bugs me excessively and I suspect it is well on the way to becoming accepted usage.

Criggie

11:59 PM

"how to not gotten annoyed because bad england ?"

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