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Clockwise
Proper facepalm Halfrauds moment on the way home.
Riding South past Lambeth North and see a bike with SRAM Hydraulic levers. Start looking at the rest of the bike, fairly nice Boardman CX. Something started to look odd and when we stop at the next lights I notice his forks are on the wrong way round. Mega toe overlap and disc caliper on the front face of the forks.
Think about pointing this out but then think he might have done it on purpose for some fucked up reason. He jumps the reds so I think "fuck him, let his bike explode."
Then I feel guilty and imagine him having a really bad crash and resolve myself to pointing it out at the next lights.
Told him, and he was actually pretty embarrassed. Said he thought something was odd but he had not had a new bike in a long time so wasn't sure what was wrong.
He took me up on my offer of fixing it, and said he had only picked it up on Friday. Even then, they rang him to say it was ready so he went to the shop. They then kept him waiting for an hour while they fucked about with it.
tldr; Halfords - making perfectly fine bikes really fucking dangerous.