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If it's anything like the Carrera bikes halfords sold when i worked for them then the chainset will be off it within 10miles because it looks like one of the cheap Truvative ones made of an alloy softer than cottage cheese using the incredibly crap powerspline interface, the innertubes *might *get you home before they get sliced open by either the unfinished rim joint or the razor sharp spoke holes which for some reason are cut so big that the rim tape cannot cover them, the brakes will probably be rubbing because the spring tension adjuster screws on the v brakes on most of the "higher end" bikes are incredibly hard to use without chewing the head off...i could go on. Plus it will probably have been built by an underpaid, untrained simpleton (there's a few good mechanics in the company but most of them bugger off elsewhere after a couple months working for idiot managers who view cycles as an unneccesary add on sale) who looks forward to the day you bring your broken bike into the store complaining of being involved in a mildly serious rta when it fell apart wile you were riding just because it will break up an otherwise monotonous day.
My friends unipack has suffered none of these complaints.