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• KT FGSS - Kingston and surrounding area

  in Social • 10 years, 7 months

  

  druids head.

• KT FGSS - Kingston and surrounding area

  in Social • 10 years, 7 months

  

  Free track pump is awesome

  whereabouts?

• Ways not to lock your bike

  in General • 11 years, 5 months

  

  http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/k578/Wrongcog/306E93E9-7951-4933-A120-C79610C64E47-1049-0000014B550AA576_zps27041e5c.jpg

  the keys for those locks are interchangeable anyway, so if he had lost them he could pop into halfords and try it out.

• Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

  in Bikes & Bits • 12 years, 11 months

  

  Was that a Mash?

  yes.

• Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

  in Bikes & Bits • 12 years, 11 months

  

  

  as seen on singletrackworld.

• Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

  in Bikes & Bits • 13 years, 8 months

  

  Halford are shite when it come to bicycles, they may have the bicycles you want, but the mechanic are out of this world.

  almost a decades ago, I brought a bicycle from a reputable chain shop, it's a Kona Smoke that was my first hybrid (well, it's more of a rigid MTB with slick tyres), it was perfectly reliable with no problem whatsoever, until it got stolen.
  Insurance company being diffcuilt to work with, they finally send me a vouncher for Halfords, no problem really, ordered the exact same bicycle (abet newer with better component), but the bicycles was pretty appauling to ride, wheel's not true, brakes is spongy, the derailleur hasn't been indexed properly, and a pretty scary moment in Fulham where my handlebar rotated on the stem clamp resulting me almost hitting a bus.

  It's then I realise it's not because the bicycle was a decent brand, it's because the mechanic actually put it together properly.

  Sound like the box has been damaged during transit, Halfords should take it back as it's their own fault for the carelessness of handling the boxes and replace the damaged bicycle.

  i know a fair few halfords mechanics and bikehut guys who are shit hot at bicycle mechanics. most worked in bike shops before halfords though, it wasn't halfords that trained them.
  quite a lot are still fucking awful, like a lot of evans staff (also know of a few).
  generally, the actual mechanics in halfords are alright, but the PT staff (who may be lumped with bike building, due to time constraints) can be really hit or miss.

• Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

  in Bikes & Bits • 13 years, 8 months

  

  just like to point out that as halfords deal with ison, you CAN get salsa there.

• Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

  in Bikes & Bits • 13 years, 11 months

  

  http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-5666.aspx

  no picture, but a tesco roadie with campagnolo...

• Ways not to lock your bike

  in General • 14 years, 1 month

  

  http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/38854000@N04/5125792220/sizes/m/ outside asda in hounslow.

• Cycle Show 2010

  in General • 14 years, 2 months

  

  the http://www.kansi.co.uk/bikes/ kansi one twenty
  

  had a lot of fun skidding this round the commuter test track.