MPC Classic Krate bicycle kit

[Ben]

Just a heads up if you’re intending on building any of the three MPC Classic Krate kits. The instructions show the rear wheel being installed backwards. The slotted disc (chain guard) goes on the right side of the bike. The solid disc (disc brake) goes on the left side.

[Ben]

I contacted Round 2 to let them know and they drew up an addendum. It was incorrect in the original instructions as well.

[tim boyd]

On 8/15/2019 at 1:58 PM, Ben said:

I contacted Round 2 to let them know and they drew up an addendum. It was incorrect in the original instructions as well.

Thanks Ben and John.  That is a highly surprising and super-quick turnaround on John's/Round 2's part.  TIM

[Ben]

On 8/18/2019 at 7:57 AM, tim boyd said:

Thanks Ben and John.  That is a highly surprising and super-quick turnaround on John's/Round 2's part.  TIM

Yeah, I was surprised as well!

[RancheroSteve]

I dropped into my LHS (Burbank's House of Hobbies) this afternoon to pick up some putty and had a pleasant surprise: the Sting Rays were back in stock! Picked one up, of course. Just FWIW, the addendum hasn't made it onto the instruction sheet yet.

[Casey]

[hpiguy]

On 8/22/2019 at 12:37 AM, RancheroSteve said:

I dropped into my LHS (Burbank's House of Hobbies) this afternoon to pick up some putty and had a pleasant surprise: the Sting Rays were back in stock! Picked one up, of course. Just FWIW, the addendum hasn't made it onto the instruction sheet yet.

No possible way it could be in them already. It's only been 8 days.

Things take time.
The R2 offices aren't sitting above a model kit factory and printing press, they are made elsewhere, much of the  time overseas and it takes a while for changes to make it to production.

It took 40 years before someone spotted the  issue and R2 fixed the manual in a day, kinda cool.

 

 

Edited August 23, 2019 by hpiguy

[Trendsetta68]

On 8/15/2019 at 8:19 AM, Ben said:

Just a heads up if you’re intending on building any of the three MPC Classic Krate kits. The instructions show the rear wheel being installed backwards. The slotted disc (chain guard) goes on the right side of the bike. The solid disc (disc brake) goes on the left side.

 

Awesome reference pic ... and great info, thanks !

[RancheroSteve]

7 hours ago, hpiguy said:

No possible way it could be in them already. It's only been 8 days.

Yeah, I get all that - mentioning it in this thread in case anyone was wondering. I was just happy to see my LHS had them back in stock and I could get one.

[KurtWKC]

I just got this kit and it's really cool, brings back a lot of memories, but I noticed the cables are black and way out of scale, too thick.  Wonder what would work to make the cables look closer to scale?