re: Annual What Are you Assembling Thread

I posted this in the LN thread but it’s worth mentioning here as a warning of possible things to come

Huffy 18 inch bike. Yeah it’s Chinese claptrap but I’ve assembled 10 of these similar bikes in 10 years for 3 kids and consider myself an expert savant. Not this time as this one was the biggest pita. Some cheap plastic collars, plastic threaded inserts, and spring pins to install the handlebars. Whatever happened to a steel shaft and using a wrench to tighten it up? First time I’ve gotten one of these things that didn’t require tools of any kind to assemble the entire bike and look where it’s gotten me. What’s taken me 10 minutes before took me 45 and I was sweating.

ETA even the pedals were self deployed, folding out and clicking into place. I’ll be surprised if this thing makes it to next Christmas.