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Reid Cycles Vintage Ladies 7-Speed Classic
Gus7Far North Queensland, QLD
- 9 reviews
- 5 likes
- Vintage Ladies 7-Speed Classic
- Verified purchase
Esprit Superlite. Good but not worth the extra $100
Product: Reide Esprit SuperLite.
Packaging: It seemed OK. no visible dents, so good courier.
Weight: with Basket= 13.65 KG (Advertised as 11.9 KG without basket <no way basket ways 1.75 KG> )
Assembly: Fairly easy (no cable cutting required), just screwing in bits. I had to bend the basket in order to get it on which felt a little dodgy. The hardest thing to install was the mud guards which took a little fiddling. Adjusting the gears also took some time to get perfect but no more than 5-10 mins. Overall i think i spent under 2 hours putting it together.
No Quick Release Components: Annoyingly the bike doesn't come with any quick release wheels or seat (which may be the classic look, but it is not practical in anyway).
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Purchased in May 2021 at Reid Cycles Online Store for A$509.94.
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Nice style but built out of the wrong materials
Oh the irony, if you see an actual vintage bicycle around you know it lasted because of a quality build, most of these vintage styled Reid bikes will probably be in the landfill within a decade of their life. My bikes tyres, rims and pedals all broke within the first two years use ( pretty minimal use too). All the exposed chrome was rusting within six months and it was stored in a weather proof bike shed, the arms to the mudguards were the worst, the outer chrome coloured coating fully flaking away from the bristling rust. I see these bikes around town occasionally and they are all rusting.
The front basket with the removable inner basket is one of the better design features and very practical.
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I adore this bike - I have for four years. However, I have been dealing with the front mudflap coming loose for a large majority of this time. Between my bike mechanic and I, we have tried everything to keep it in place and I cannot find the black plastic "hole thingy" that the metal prongs insert into anywhere.
It so embarrassing and incredibly annoying to be stopping cycling every time I go over a bump to put it back into the hole - because if you don't it clangs SO loudly. I'm at the point where I want to chuck it over a bridge - but unf...Read more
ortunately, I need it to get to work. I am writing this review because I have seen on the other complaints that Reid cycles appear to have helped the situations people are having with this bike. So if you are reading this Reid Cycles - Please help me by telling me where I can buy the black plastic "hole thing" that the metal prongs insert into... before Sydney Harbour acquires a new bike. Regards, A woman at the end of her patience.2 comments
Reid cycles private messaged me and sent me out the replacements needed so the spokes dont fall out anymore - free of charge. Really great fixing of the problem - wish I had of just sent them an email first. They seem quite reasonable.
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I bought this bike in white, from the Reid store on Victoria St, Melbourne (4 years ago). It looked very nice and the price, $300 was very appealing to a poor uni student with no car (probably the main demographic of Reid) It rusted after 2 weeks, even though I kept it inside at night. The fragile wheels could not handle cobble stone or bumps in the road and buckled. I got puncture too easily. The wheel started making a very embarrassing "clunk" (busted ball bearing in wheel?). I rang the store and to their credit they said bring it in and they...Read more
would fix it, but without a car it was quite inconvenient to get the bike into the city so I just let it sit in my spare room and eventually sold it for $25. If I had invested $600 on a decent bike with good quality parts, instead of the poor quality bike, I would still have a decent bike today. These bikes are expendable and not built to last.Similar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
RuedigerBrisbane
- 2 reviews
- 1 like
Beautiful and graceful bike! Ride in style!
I bought this bike partly because she had the right mix of features and price, but more than that: because she was the most gorgeous bike I could find at any price! Since buying her 16 months ago, we've covered 5,000km, including 100km on the 2015 Brisbane-to-Gold-Coast ride. (And I plan to ride her again in this year's event).
With her bright, cheerful, red paintwork and classic good looks, she gets lots of nice comments. Once, when returning to where I'd left her tied up in a park, I found a photographer taking pictures of her. A friend a...Read more
lso borrowed her as a prop in her wedding photos! I particularly enjoy riding her in "Style over Speed" events, where she completely looks the part among genuine vintage, classic bikes. To ride, this bike is stable, tame, and very comfortable, and a perfect mount for even a very inexperienced rider like I was when I started. The combination of her weight and gears did make Brisbane hills a challenge at first, but a few weeks of commuting got me past that. When getting started, it's no crime to get off and push for a bit anyway. The only reason this isn't a 5-star review is that the quality of some of the components is very poor. A few other reviews here have already called attention to the chainguard, which is extremely flimsy and will be bent out of shape in no time. Fortunately, it's just as easily bent back into (something like) shape -- but if you look at the chainguards of any of these bikes you see on the street, they're almost all warped and bent, so it's a common flaw. I've also had to replace the saddle, grips, and a rear wheel whose spokes broke. That probably sounds like a lot, but I bet many of these bikes never travel the kind of distances we've travelled: it's the equivalent of many years of casual, weekend riding. In short -- a beautiful bike at a great price! Highly recommended!3 comments
David F.Reid Cycles
Hi Ruediger,
Many thanks for your kind and honest review. We are very happy that you are enjoying the bike!... Read more
Just a quick note on the chain guard, they are designed to bend on impact to prevent them from braking. As they are in a position where they are often knocked they are deigned to give rather then snap. If the guard was to snap if could be dragged into the chain coursing the bike to stop suddenly endangering the rider. Also we do stock replacement guards so if you do need one in the future please contact the customer support team on (03) 9329 1222. Regards, Reid JosephThanks for the explanation, Joseph. I understand that the chainguard might indeed be flimsy by design. If so, I question the wisdom of that engineering decision for two reasons:
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* Knocking the chainguard with my shoe during ordinary pedalling has been sufficient to deform it enough to either bend it outwards into a position where it has caught on my shoe or pants leg on the next pedal stroke and thereby risked injuring me, or (more usually) bend it inwards into the chain or chainring. If this latter scenario is what Reid is trying to avoid by shipping a deliberately flimsy chainguard, then I think this remedy is unsuccessful -- it *causes* exactly the problem it's designed to solve. * No other chainguard or chaincase I've seen has been as flimsy as this. This suggests to me that it's possible to manufacture a sturdier unit that's safe to use, or alternatively, that if the "flimsy by design" strategy really is technically safer than the more rigid chainguards on other bikes, a snapping chainguard is such an unlikely scenario that other manufacturers have evaluated this risk as insignificant and chosen to supply a unit that will not deform under normal use. Thank you for the offer of a replacement! However, I have already purchased a third-party chainguard (a Horn SL-23) which is far sturdier and which I don't think will suffer from the same problem (when I get around to installing it!) Bottom line is still that although this is a real (literal!) weak spot on this bike, she's still gorgeous and I've never regretted buying her!Lex G.Reid Cycles
Hi Ruediger,
Thanks for the feedback and tip about the Horn SL-23, I'm sure this will help others looking to reinforce their chainguard.... Read more
If you've got any other pointers let us know!! We're always looking for ways to improve our products. Kind regards, MattSimilar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
Questions & Answers
Adamasked
Hi, I have had this for a year, and my wife only rode it twice in that time. Trying to get it ready again for her to ride last week, i realized parts of the braking surface on the rims were peeling off in chunks. Now where and how do i get replacement for these? Front and back wheels. Could i use any road bike wheels and slap on the 7 speed cassette?
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Reid sells replacement wheelsets for $70 (you get both wheels). But there's nothing to peel off the braking surface: these surfaces are bare alloy. Anything peeling off is therefore some kind of contaminant. I'd recommend taking it into a bike shop so a mechanic can take a look in person and advise.
Additionally, the wheels on these bikes don't have cassettes; they have an older (rare now) setup called a "freewheel". Although these look like cassettes, they're not interchangeable with them. So to fit a different wheel, you would either need a wheel that could accept the freewheel from this bike, or you would need a conventional ("freehub") wheel with a 7-speed cassette. I think these rims are also wider than a typical road bike rim, to take the wider tyres these bikes use.
So, in short, my guess is that there's nothing wrong with these wheels that cleaning won't fix; and that if they ever need replacing you're better off with the Reid parts.
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David F.Reid Cycles
Hi Kelly, Sorry to hear you're having issues. I've sent you a private message in the hopes we can resolve this for you. Wes.