Over the next few years, I noticed more and more that the quality was inconsistent. So, I printed my own stickers of Rider back back designs and solved that issue. The biggest problem for me was the new design on the back of the card case. I could still do faro work and estimation just fine. Or, perhaps a deck felt considerably thinner. It just meant that every so often there was a deck that was a little rough around the edges. This didn’t mean that the cards were unusable.
And, wtf happened to the pull tabs on the shrink-wrap?! The box design changed, the card stock got thinner, the finish changed, and the feel and overall quality of the cards diminished. Then, as we all remember, the USPCC changed to the Standards we see today. The decks were traditionally cut and they were consistently awesome decks of cards. Roughly twenty years ago, I used to buy Rider back Bikes exclusively from wholesale clubs like Sam’s Club, Costco, and BJ’s. So, for this blog, I’ll share with you what I’ve noticed after about twenty years of working with Bicycle decks. I noticed that most people were talking about the poor quality of Bicycle cards. I recently posted a photo of a defective Bicycle playing card across my social media accounts and it got way more attention than I expected.
