{"id":469,"date":"2011-05-11T19:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2011-05-11T19:05:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T00:05:33","slug":"spinner-bikes-from-mad-dog-not-what-they-profess-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"SPINNER Bikes from Mad Dog, not what they profess to be!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8211; This post is from about-bicycles.com blog reader mfsmith &#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I read reviews and most were positive.\u00a0 I waited patiently for our new Spinner TV bike and when it arrived I quickly assembled it for my first ride.\u00a0 This is were the dissatisfaction began.\u00a0 The bike does not adjust to a 6&#8217;2&#8242; rider as the seat accommodated my height but not the handlebar.\u00a0 Then when you put the handlebar to the highest setting, it rocks back and forth.\u00a0 Even more disappointing,\u00a0 I had a LOUD clanking within the chain housing cover.\u00a0 After removing the cover and determining that there were no loose parts, I determined the chain had to much play and was striking the plastic housing.\u00a0 For now, I removed the outer piece of the housing cover to minimize the noise.\u00a0 The worst was yet to come.\u00a0 I called Customer Service and they said my issues were Technical Support matters and they gave me the phone number.\u00a0 I called and asked to be put on hold&#8230;for 30 minutes when I finally hung up and called back.\u00a0 This time I agreed to leave a voicemail mesaage and left my issues and contact number.\u00a0 I left another message the next day and got a callback but to the number I called from which is not the number I left in the voicemail.\u00a0 I called back several more times with no response and then went back to Customer Service.\u00a0 I shared my frustration and they said Upper Mgt would call me back in 48 hours&#8230;that was 4 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The bike has potential to be a quality product but the customer service is nonexistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8211; This post is from about-bicycles.com blog reader mfsmith &#8212;&#8211; I read reviews and most were positive.\u00a0 I waited patiently for our new Spinner TV bike and when it arrived I quickly assembled it for my first ride.\u00a0 This is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=469\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}