Do you think there should be more control of the sale of cheap flat-pack bikes in boxes? (Poll Closed)

I think the people who sell them should know what they are doing and make sure their staff are properly trained. I would not want to buy a bike from a supermarket when the person selling it to me has just been stacking beans!

i work for a company not mentioning who but it starts with h------s and we sell the cheap flat packed bikes and they as shoddy as you get they shud not be sold full stop

I think the the bike parts should be in a seperatede bag from the bike.

I work in a little bike shop, the boss owns 3 shops in berkshire. although ive never been through a cytech course, my two work colleagues have and they have taught me a lot, although my manager considers me the 2nd best mechanic in the shop.

admittedly our shop doesnt stock utter crap like ultima and reebok bikes or dunlop, whatever those cheap hunks of crap are. boxes like that definately should not be sold at all, however i think people forget that even a £500 giant bike comes flatpacked into a box, it depends entirely on the mechanic building it on how safe it is.

How are you ever going to 'control' the sale of a product.. cheap it may be, and some are not the best quality, but they are made to a price for a market who otherwise wouldn't be cycling at all - how many pump/innertube/helmet accesories sales do you get once you've got someone with a bike..

If you buy a cheap flat pack bike in this country. It should be built to British Standards. If it's taken away by the customer. In the box. And put together. By the customer. It's the customers responsability for it's safety. I worked in a Toys R Us Store for 3 months. 03/04. Building bikes. At 1st I built the bikes. And before it was given to the customer. One of the. Cytech qualified bike builders there. Hadto check it as well. While I was there. Toys R Us, put me through an. In house, Cytech course. Which I past. Cheap bikes. You get what you pay for. But. It's not really worth it.

boxed bikes sold straight to the consumer lead to problems when the cycle is not assembled properly. the like s of trek do not allow the sale of their bikes in bxes to avoid this. i think there are arguments to make this a wider spread standard,safety and customer satisfaction among others.

cheap bikes badly put together put people off cycling and if they have been shipped half way around the world then get used twice then chucked away, are just bad news for the environment generally!