Unfortunately, taking $220 to your local bike shop will not buy you much, let alone a cool retro Mongoose. Let’s remember, it is a department store bike after all. Those issues aside it’s still a fairly nice build for the price point. Would have been nice to get a small bottle of touch-up paint with the bike, but who am I fooling, those days left us high and dry in the late 1980’s.
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The way all the parts where zip tied together and put in the box allowed for the handlebar to rub on the bottom of the sprocket/chain, which chewed up the paint. It’s a bike for kids, remember? Hopefully later production will see this issue with the mags and get it cleaned up, maybe not? The only other issue that I have found so far is the scratched up handlebar. Mongoose, if you are listening, this extra material is super sharp and definitely not kid friendly.
Ouch, they dropped the ball on this one as it’s a liability for them, and has potential to cut someone quite badly. It doesn’t look like quality control (if there is such a department) even bothered to clean up the excess material. Also, the mag wheels are cast aluminum and had some extra material that “ouzed” out of the mold, which left behind some wicked sharp areas. I had to take a file and some sand paper to the inside of the tube as it wouldn’t accept the seatpost without putting huge scratches in the chrome finish. One being the very sharp unfinished seat tube internals. There are a few things I found that I didn’t like.
It really is the same quality as most entry level Bike Shop bikes for kids. I’m pleasantly surprised at the build quality of this Mongoose. He’s on FB, names James King and he lives in Conroe Tx, I’m not gonna put any personal info on here but look him up if your interested in any of it, there’s pics of most of it on his page and you can contact him through there.Update #2 as of : Finished unboxing and final assembly. And if you’re looking for a real early ‘80’s mongoose I think my buddy still has 1 or 2 of those left and he just bought a huge collection of older stuff a couple of weeks ago, it’s all ‘60’s and earlier stuff. So if your looking for something like that check out their website, they’ve got a lot of cool stuffs from Skyway, SE Racing, Haro, Kuwahara, GT/Dyno, Hoffman, Redline, etc…. (It’s only been a couple of really minor things) but still they made good on it painlessly. And just a little FYI I’ve purchased all but one of them from Planer BMX out of Florida and they’re really cool folks, excellent customer service and any problems I’ve had were taken care of immediately with no hassles. BUT they’re all made of the same materials that the original bike was. I still own a lot of bikes, including 9 “limited edition remakes” of bikes I owned growing up and all of them were between $700 and $1200.
That’s pretty cool, BUT for $220 just understand that it’s prolly a mild steel frame and fork, versus 4130 chromoly or aluminum. But if it’s anything like the first two, they’ll be gone before you know it. Unlike the first two bikes, this one will be available in stores – starting on June 30th, you might just be able to find one of the Max bikes at Target for $219.99. This is the third Stranger Things Character bike and as mentioned is very similar to a Mongoose BMX bike from the 1980’s, right down to the plastic seat and 5 spoke mag wheels. With creative guidance from Netflix, the Mongoose team found the parts and built the bikes in their Madison, Wisconsin headquarters and then shipped to Netflix to begin filming.įrom there, the Mongoose team took the period correct bikes they just put together to inspire a replica model of Maxine ‘Max’ Mayfield’s bike to sell to the public. This time, Netflix enlisted the help of Mongoose to source period correct bikes and parts from local sources to create the actual bikes used for filming season three. For season three, things are a little different… While the Lucas bike replica looked very similar to the one used in the hit Netflix Original Series, those more familiar with BMX bikes couldn’t help but notice that the bike used in the show (based in the 80’s) was a modern BMX bike built with a few retro parts. If you didn’t act fast, you probably missed the last Stranger Things character bike from Schwinn that sold out within hours.
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