WCB Warranty Claims. Why wait? Get your claim ahead of time.

Your Walmart Crappy Bike has a MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of hours instead of years. They know which part fail and are on the parts website. Tubes, forks, handlebars, grips, hub bearings, bottom bracket sets, front and rear wheels, wheel nuts, brake pads, stamped metal brakes arms, saddles, saddle and tires. That's almost every part on a bike. Warranty claims for replacement parts cover your Disposable Bike for only a few months. These are parts that should not wear out or fall apart. They should last many years, and on disposable bikes their life is measured in hours of use. These are the low quality parts that make up your bike. Order the parts you think you need to keep this bike working for the next few years before the warranty expires. Now you have some spares.

Incidentally, schwinnbikes.com which is Pacific Bicycles has so little confidence in their bikes they offer a measly 30 day warranty. Instead return it for a refund and get your money back.

Lowes is now selling disposable bikes. Adding the number of those stores to my list.

There are many nonprofit bike shops and I volunteer at bikex.org in Palo Alto. One of their operations is to provide refurbished bikes to other nonprofit charities. What is there available for individuals? My program provides that service to people and it is called Fix Your Bike Day Newark. It is sponsored by Viola Blythe Community Services, and funded by a grant from stopwaste.org. Watch this video and you can see how you can start your own, and what our results look like. I hope you like what you see. In the end my friend Jianhan from SVBC owns the bike to teach Learn to Ride.

A Practical Cyclocamping Video on Walmart Crappy Bikes (WCB) Show covers Warranty Claims. A 226.9 MB file.

Take a look at, volunteer at, or visit Bikex.org in Palo Alto, good people.

I highly recommend buying reference material Sutherlands Handbook for Bicycle Mechanics.

Effective Cycling by John Forester is the primary book on traffic cycling and bicycle repairs. Well worth having on your book shelf to ref to.

Consider starting and running your own Bike Fixit Clinic, mine is called Fix Your Bike Day through Fremont Freewheelers Bicycle Club (ffbc.org) and Bike Fremont (bikefremont.org), and everything is free. We do accept cash donations. First become a League Cycling Instructor if anything for the liability insurance policy. It also fun and rewarding to become a professional cycling instructor. Become part of the solution in an organized way with others.

https://www.sutherlandsbicycle.com/pr...
https://www.meetup.com/bikeways-for-f...
https://ffbc.org/
https://www.cyclic-nature.com/

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