More bike stuff from Sears

[oldpotatoe]

Not just washing machines anymore.

http://www.sears.com/pure-fix-cycles-fixed-gear-track-bike-frame/p-SPM8092279202?sid=IDx20140425xECNMPFS10&srccode=cii_20121666&cpncode=26-371946429-2&redirectType=SRDT

[Fishbike]

Not as cool as my Free Spirit Junior Spyder circa 1970 in teal.

Hey come to think of it, Old Potatoe, I bought my Merckx Extra Corsa in teal in part in tribute to my first two wheeler. Or so I rationalized.

[Cicli]

^^^^^^^^Hipster. ^^^^^^^^^^^^

:bike:

Running for cover now. :D

[witcombusa]

Not just washing machines anymore.

http://www.sears.com/pure-fix-cycles-fixed-gear-track-bike-frame/p-SPM8092279202?sid=IDx20140425xECNMPFS10&srccode=cii_20121666&cpncode=26-371946429-2&redirectType=SRDT


For the cost of a pair of tires...

[LegendRider]

http://www.purefixcycles.com/collections/sale/products/original-fixed-gear-frameset

[Ahneida Ride]

only 132.74 frn

[jr59]

So what?

Thats to much money!!

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Thruster-700C-Men-s-Fixie-Bike/29020955?action=product_interest&action_type=title&placement_id=irs_top&strategy=PWVUB&visitor_id=55431747750&category=0%3A4171%3A133073%3A1085617&client_guid=dc2cee72-3746-41f4-99f8-58f2049b8f7b&config_id=2&parent_item_id=21635148&guid=dbc8e99c-28cd-4d54-bdbb-0b38592efcdc&bucket_id=irsbucketdefault&findingMethod=p13n

[witcombusa]

only 132.74 frn

that's about what, $2.74 in real money:p

[jemoryl]

Please note that is not being sold by Sears, but by some other place. They (and many other sites) seem to have their own version of the Amazon Marketplace. On these sites, if you don't select 'search **** only' you can get all kinds of crap.

BTW, Sears had some interesting bikes back in the '70s. One of their lines was from Puch and I think it even included a Reynolds 531 frame with decent components. For some reason, that one never showed up in my local Sears. There were some decent Austrian made 3-speeds with Torpado gears, but most of the bike boom bikes were crappy 'Free Spirit' ones made by Columbia, IIRC.

[ultraman6970]

Sears is trying to become something like an amazon, a lot of outside stores a selling trough sears.

[ericssonboi]

So what?

Thats to much money!!

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Thruster-700C-Men-s-Fixie-Bike/29020955?action=product_interest&action_type=title&placement_id=irs_top&strategy=PWVUB&visitor_id=55431747750&category=0%3A4171%3A133073%3A1085617&client_guid=dc2cee72-3746-41f4-99f8-58f2049b8f7b&config_id=2&parent_item_id=21635148&guid=dbc8e99c-28cd-4d54-bdbb-0b38592efcdc&bucket_id=irsbucketdefault&findingMethod=p13n

Just looking at those brake calipers hurts my eyes..

[Cicli]

So what?

Thats to much money!!

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Thruster-700C-Men-s-Fixie-Bike/29020955?action=product_interest&action_type=title&placement_id=irs_top&strategy=PWVUB&visitor_id=55431747750&category=0%3A4171%3A133073%3A1085617&client_guid=dc2cee72-3746-41f4-99f8-58f2049b8f7b&config_id=2&parent_item_id=21635148&guid=dbc8e99c-28cd-4d54-bdbb-0b38592efcdc&bucket_id=irsbucketdefault&findingMethod=p13n

And they have one cheaper than that.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Thruster-700C-Men-s-Fixie-Bike-Black-Red/23810254?action=product_interest&action_type=title&placement_id=irs_middle&strategy=PWVAV&visitor_id=83194435336&category=0%3A4171%3A133073%3A1085617&client_guid=51ab2379-e1cd-4aab-a00c-797e68909919&config_id=2&parent_item_id=29020955&guid=60eb4800-43d8-4114-a8bd-295943915451&bucket_id=irsbucketdefault&findingMethod=p13n

[Dale Alan]

Wow,I had no idea this was happening. This is unreal.

[fiamme red]

In the 1960's, Sears sold a pretty nice Ted Williams Sport Racer model, built of 531 by Puch.

http://oldtenspeedgallery.com/owner-submitted/bill-ds-sears-ted-williams-sport-racer/#.U8yBneNdW1U

[rwsaunders]

My first roadie was a white Sears Free Spirit "10 speed" that I rode from Pittsburgh to Columbus and back after my sophomore year in high school. I also recall buying a really nice Ted Williams signature outfileder's mitt and a Sir Edmund Hillary endorsed tent from Sears as well. Sears had the superstars of yesteryear signed on at the time. The bike looked the one in the photo...unreal.

[Dead Man]

My first roadie was a white Sears Free Spirit "10 speed" that I rode from Pittsburgh to Columbus and back after my sophomore year in high school. I also recall buying a really nice Ted Williams signature outfileder's mitt and a Sir Edmund Hillary endorsed tent from Sears as well. Sears had the superstars of yesteryear signed on at the time. The bike looked the one in the photo...unreal.

Back when "department store" didn't mean "made in China"

[jemoryl]

Back when "department store" didn't mean "made in China"

It may have not been made in China but those US made '10-speeds' from Columbia, Huffy, Murray, Ross, etc were crap, much worse than those Chinese made GMC things from the big box stores of today.

I say this as someone who had the Montgomery Ward version of the above, and like rwsanunders, spent a high school summer doing a tour around the Finger Lakes on it. And later, when I worked in a shop, we were always trying to make these things rideable for people who couldn't understand why our bikes cost so much more.

[torquer]

My first "adult" bike (I left my newspaper-delivery appliance home when I went to college in the big city) was a Sears 26" tourer that my GF's father (eventual father-in-law) gave me when I went to graduate school in the 70s. He was in industrial real estate, and Sears left behind a bunch of these when their lease expired. Knowing the back story, and assuming anything from Asia (Japan, at that point) was inferior, I was pleasantly surprised at the quality. Took it out one day for a spin around the countryside and stayed out for all of 30 miles, an impossible-seeming distance at the time. It was the beginning of my (cycling) downfall.
Great bike, which I eventually gave to my own father, who also caught the cycling bug as a result.
(F-I-L was a great guy,too.)
Great memories, thanks for the reminder OP.

[Charles M]

More proof that only carbon fiber is inexpensive to produce in the far east?