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Howard
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I quite liked the look of Fairlight bikes. But didn't like their "up their own backsides" over fussy website with misleading pricing.
But what really put me off them in an irreversible way was an interview I watched with one of the owners where he seemed to be the self proclaimed guru of all things cycling, like he was some god like innovator. Its a bloody steel cross bike with clearance for slightly fatter tyres. Not the solution to all the world's problems you prick.
Fatter tyres on a drop handlebar bike was hardly innovative at the time, even if they matched that with an easy on the eye colour pallette. Chump. He was so full of his own self importance. I actually think he's convinced himself he invented the bloody wheel itself.
They might be nice bikes, but I couldn't bear to ride something associated to an ego like that.
Says the man who recently bought a genesis 😂