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A bike which of course is not an accessory and so doesn't qualify for the 15% promo.
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Okay, e.g. Brooks Swift Saddle RRP £89.99
http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=en&q=Brooks+Swift+Saddle+buy&scoring=r&show=dd&sa=N&start=0
Knock 15% off evans price = £76.49 + free delivery.
That's a very competitive deal. I couldn't find cheaper online.
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take off the 15% and it's just over £100 + free delivery.
But this one here uses less material so might be cheaper..
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I like Evans. I always thought they were reliable/cheap/friendly, until today, which went something like this:
I took a new frame into EJ Barnes on Westbourne Grove to get a BB fitted - the guy there did a good job fitting it, but didn't have a C wrench to tighten the lockring on the outside, so charged me nothing and told me to find someone wo had the right tools. So I down the road I go to Evans, asked them if they could do it, and they said 'yes, come back in 15'. So I came back 15 minutes later, and ended up waiting at least another 45, with apologies and excuses flying everywhere. I ended up buying an Abus steel chain (not because I was bored of waiting, I do actually need one), for which they gave me 10% off because they'd managed to turn a 15 minute wait into an hour and 10 minutes. Finally, the assistant came upstairs with my frame, and his exact words were 'let me explain what went wrong'. Turns out that the axle was grinding, so the mechanic had tried to take it out to fix it, slipped with the C wrench, and taken a massive gash out of the top of the left side of the BB shell. This I would have been alright with, until he'd (clearly) tried to cover it up without my knowing, then realised that it was way noticeable. The frame is pearl white, and the 'paint' that he used looks like cheap tippex. And the axle is still grinding.
To give them what little credit they are due, they didn't charge me for the '15 (more like an hour and 15) minutes labour', and have booked me in next week to fix the BB/service/attempt at bettering the paint job, all free of charge, but what really pisses me off is that a) the mechanic had tried to rectify the BB problems without consulting me, and b) he'd then tried, after quite badly damaging the BB shell, to hide it from me.
It's a shame, because I like Evans, but I'll definitely be avoiding this branch for repairs in the future.
/rant
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Went to Evans in Woking today, with a friend who wanted a bike-to-work hybrid. First question was "how much do you want to spend ?" Fail.
Then spend 1/2 hour explaining why she should spend more to get a carbon fork (FFS) and trying to load on extras LR&C, ignoring everything on offer/reduced to sell 2011 bikes at full cost.
Epic fail.
No stock in - understandable, can't have everything in there - but wanted £100 deposit to get one in, and no test ride. Epic fail.
Went to High on Bikes in Dorking where got excellent service from Ben, test ride, sound advice all round, and got a nice end of this year's line bargain Trek which will do her to a tee. Epic win from the LBS. -
^^As chance would have it, I called Westbourne Grove Evans today to enquire about a BB fitting, as they're my local branch; after reading that, no thanks. I've always had decent service there though, and was even taken down to the mechanics lair once when they cut me a chain to size. Such privilege.
There are a few decent people working there, I think. I've always preferred the Holborn branch though - ultra helpful, willing to waive charges if need be, have me try things out, and happy to talk. But Fenchurch Street is cack.
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evans can suck my cod the fucking cunts
if it was up to them cunts i wouldnt ride my bike for more than a month.
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Evans is like Tesco, Boots, Sainsburys, Matalan, Marks and Spencer.
Nothing particularly evocative on the customer service front, but particularly focused on ... have a guess ? yes profit. So no winners for great service, although they all love to drone on about "exceptional service" "exceptional customer care", but when you have the money to advertise and the people who are listening are mostly non-cyclists, 1st port of call is any of those above.
For amateur cyclists or bike enthusiasts, we all know the corner lbs is and always will be the best because everything he does, reflects on him personally, and so everything he does will be of high quality, if that is he is a decent person which most are.
Fitzrovia Cycles for example, amazing service, every single time, without question, without fail, and even if there is a fail it's a happy fail.
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Shame they're shit in Birmingham.
When I got employed there they told me I was the most knowledgeable cycle geek by miles.
We also had to do practical tests and presentations on how we would sell stuff and help customers. Again I excelled by miles compared to the others, one of whom did not even cycle!
They refused to give me the mechanic training, instead giving it to younger guy who expressed no interest in a future outside of the bike shop. (value for them, even if he barely knew how to setup a flat pack bike)
After the ridiculously hard graft of setting up the shop. Truck fulls of products and bikes, endless shelf stacking and rearranging from early morning to late night.
Guess what? They decide to fire me!
In favour of some white guy who walked in off the street with a CV. Someone who had not done the residential training trip I had just done, nor had the wide cycling knowledge or even contacts with Birmingham cyclists like I do.
It made absolutely NO sense.
The only possible reasoning is that they preferred to clear out the only brown member of staff. You heard it hear folks.
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I enjoy nattering with the kind of people looking to buy a bike and actually giving them some good advice. Rather than these muptards who I know for a fact will be trying their best to sell them the most impractical expensive thing ever as they mostly know fuck all about bikes. Not a single one of them commuted by bike.
That was the only thing I was looking forward too really, and I never got a chance to do it even for a day. The cunts.
The deputy manager is a right vulgar, crude, sexist, slow, prick. Really unpleasant character, the kind of chap who refers to women as gash or fanny while slurping pot noodles.
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^compared to the 20-30% you can get? How so?
They (and Cyclesurgery) have an overarching price promise that over-rides any and all short term promotions designed to suck in the suckers. Big fuck off stickers in every shop window to remind of the fact too, but hey, enjoy your secret bargain 15% password exclusive deal