New Bikes

bedfordrl · Post by **bedfordrl** » 23 Sep 2007, 13:56

Don't know if this has been done before, but, aren't the new bikes the biggest heaps of s**t ever ?.
How many times can those bloody pedals fall off?.
And that wierd wobble when setting out (no not me, the bike).

Post by **dvbuk55** » 23 Sep 2007, 13:58

bedfordrl wrote:Don't know if this has been done before, but, aren't the new bikes the biggest heaps of s**t ever ?.
How many times can those bloody pedals fall off?.
And that wierd wobble when setting out (no not me, the bike).

How new are we talking?

We've had a new issue bike and it's the same mailstar but with the 3 geared hub instead of the 5.

No issues with the pedals have been reported to me.

d johnston · Post by **d johnston** » 23 Sep 2007, 16:47

Bikes ..a symbol of our caring employer ( no laughing please)

Brakes dodgy , gear lasted a week and you need the strength of a tour de france winner to get them up hills. We are not allowed to use panniers due to stability problems. The front basket is smaller than the old bikes .The bikes they gave to africa were better than this. They should give the board company bikes instead of cars... think of the savings they would make and they pain they would suffer .....

Ps the pedals have yet to malfunction, but its early days .

i have cycled for over 25 years and i have never ridden such poor quality bikes , where did they get them from ? and at what cost

can we get are old bikes back from africa ? and swop them

bedfordrl · Post by **bedfordrl** » 23 Sep 2007, 16:50

Yes it is the Mailstar.
The pedal is attached to the crank by an allen bolt and they are continually falling off.
The bolt works itself loose and everytime it is tightened it comes loose again.
My theory is that with panniers and the bag on the front therre is too much weight on the bike for the pedal and the torque wrecks the threads on the bolts.

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 23 Sep 2007, 16:51

I ride a bike in work, and these new ones are crap. The left pedal constantly falls off because it has a right-handed thread and therefore works loose. The brakes are very poor compared to the old bikes. I;ve reported both to the office boys and still no action. I advise people to carry an 8mm Allen key with them. If that left pedal falls off in heavy traffic, someone will be injured at best.

bedfordrl · Post by **bedfordrl** » 23 Sep 2007, 17:00

Oh so that is why they fall off,,, so how come this happened then ?,surely the people who made the bikes knew what they were doing ?

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 23 Sep 2007, 17:07

bedfordrl wrote:Oh so that is why they fall off,,, so how come this happened then ?,surely the people who made the bikes knew what they were doing ?

I've rode a bike most of my like and I've never known it to happen before. It's symptomatic of Royal Mail's approach to just about anything. By the way, when I mentioned it to the office boy, he said "They've been on trial." So that makes them perfectly safe then.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 23 Sep 2007, 17:15

IWW Fellow Worker wrote:
bedfordrl wrote:Oh so that is why they fall off,,, so how come this happened then ?,surely the people who made the bikes knew what they were doing ?
I've rode a bike most of my like and I've never known it to happen before. It's symptomatic of Royal Mail's approach to just about anything. By the way, when I mentioned it to the office boy, he said "They've been on trial." So that makes them perfectly safe then.

and of course companies don't let you trial the best that they manufacturer as that would not be a true representation of the quality of the good.

cruisey · Post by **cruisey** » 23 Sep 2007, 18:14

The new bikes will go the same way as the trikes (the wheels fall off) and the powered HCT (the stop dead when they get wet). We had em on trial. They're sitting in the shed now rotting away

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 23 Sep 2007, 18:35

Here's a link to Pashley Bikes
http://www.pashley.co.uk/lists/work-bikes.html

theflyingpostman · Post by **theflyingpostman** » 24 Sep 2007, 20:09

cruisey wrote:The new bikes will go the same way as the trikes (the wheels fall off) and the powered HCT (the stop dead when they get wet). We had em on trial. They're sitting in the shed now rotting away

How easy are those electric trikes to ride? Can you ride up hills with them fully loaded? From what you have said above I have my doubts. I was looking forward to having one on my walk.

Back to the Mailstar though it is pretty typical with Royal Mail in the way they test & introduce new things be that bicycles,uniforms,vans,machines etc. Do they ever take any notice of the feedback they get from the testers?

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 24 Sep 2007, 20:12

theflyingpostman wrote:
cruisey wrote:The new bikes will go the same way as the trikes (the wheels fall off) and the powered HCT (the stop dead when they get wet). We had em on trial. They're sitting in the shed now rotting away
How easy are those electric trikes to ride? Can you ride up hills with them fully loaded? From what you have said above I have my doubts. I was looking forward to having one on my walk.

Back to the Mailstar though it is pretty typical with Royal Mail in the way they test & introduce new things be that bicycles,uniforms,vans,machines etc. Do they ever take any notice of the feedback they get from the testers?

It's all about saving money short term not about long term savings

Post by **rhino49** » 24 Sep 2007, 20:15

IWW Fellow Worker wrote:

I've rode a bike most of my like and I've never known it to happen before. It's symptomatic of Royal Mail's approach to just about anything. By the way, when I mentioned it to the office boy, he said "They've been on trial." So that makes them perfectly safe then.

So has Saddam Hussain and he wasn't safe either.

heapsy · Post by **heapsy** » 24 Sep 2007, 20:39

I've got a 3 speed mailstar, and only last week had to have the pedals replaced, after only about 3 months tops! How s**t is that?

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