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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: dannywhiteley on March 03, 2010, 07:08 PM
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Went in today to get a freewheel removal tool (my local indie bike shop want £12 for one 8)), and couldnt see any on the racks. The lad there said they had stopped stocking them, but had a root round his tool kit and sold me his spare (brand new) for £1.50...lol
Good lad, Halfords does come in useful sometimes... ;D
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Result :daumenhoch: i must admit when i worked for Halfords on my work experience on the bike department, they would give you a least 3 of each tool :daumenhoch: :LolLolLolLol:
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Got some copy MKS Graphites from Halfords in 83-84 bang tidy for £3 lasted a good 4 weeks :crazy2:
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:) Went into my local Halfrauds Craphut about 6 months ago,was after a cheapo tyre.The ****heads told me that nobody makes BMX tyres any more :wtf:
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i went to halfords once.....
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i went to halfords once.....
I drove past one the other day.....
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I bought a road bike from Halfords last year, did the 'reserve online, pick-up in store' thing. Got there (about 15 miles away) only to be told they didn't have a spare one in stock.
To cut a very long, annoying, story short, they eventually (weeks later) got one for me, so I asked them not to build it and I'd pick it up and take it away in the box. The 'top bloke' in there assured me that as I was spending a significant amount on the bike that they would ensure that everything was set up properly, so against my better judgement, I let them build it.
Went to pick it up to see some young lad building another (childrens) bike, with the forks on the wrong way - didn't have the heart to tell him as I was sure one of his colleagues would anyway. Picked my bike up and all seemed well. Made my second mistake, by not check tightening everything before going out on it. I had just descended a hill and was travelling at about 25-30mph and got out of the saddle to honk up the forthcoming incline when the bars and stem decided to turn independently of the fork - luckily it didn't result in me eating tarmac, but I was most annoyed to find neither stem bolt had been tightened. The only thing holding the bars straight was the top-cap.
Idiots ::)
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the one down lakeside is utter crap ... went there to borrow a 19mm spanner to do up .... and the :Aresehole: gave me a 8mm allen key :LolLolLolLol:
then about 3 months later went to get some grips ... i was told the grips had to be fitted by them and would cost 20 ... for some cheapo diamoundback grips ? come on not even the "top of the line"ones cost that much :LolLolLolLol: :rant:
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For most things Halfords are retail price only, which is very shit. I was in there a couple of weeks ago and asked (as you do) how much to fit a chain and rear deureilleur... £17 was the reply. I then pointed out that the rear cassette would need the old lubricant cleaning off....
The reply.
'We don't have the facilities to do that'
reading between the lines, we'll fit a part (badly) if we don't have to get our hands dirty....
Time for such people to be unemployed methinks
Ray.