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What hippy said,
I worked in a bike shop for a bit and speed was the biggest nuisance. This is the biggest grief with cheap & nasty bikes and parts which will never run perfectly without days worth of tweaking.
I imagine you will not get this problem so much in london where the majority of cyclists are actual commuters who dont mind spending money on a practical functioning bicycle rather than a £100 full suss mtb with disc brakes, all of which are faulty right out of the box.
But some of halfords most popular bikes suffer from such problems too. The kids appollo bmx's for example are extremely popular. But are fitted with a useless gyro which will give you a million headaches if you try to get the brakes working properly on one. The adjusters are non standard and reverse threaded, so you cannot replace them without physical modification of parts.