Unclean, unclean URGH

Harryburgundy · Oct 21, 2008

Helped one of the parents at my kids school...had a puncture and didn't know to repair it. Turns out to be a Halfords £99 job.
What a piece of sh*t.
Now I feel distinctly unclean having manhandled it

Why do people buy 'em.
Off to clean my tools :roll:

orange71 · Oct 21, 2008

Harryburgundy":141efc6g said:
Helped one of the parents at my kids school...had a puncture and didn't know to repair it. Turns out to be a Halfords £99 job.
What a piece of sh*t.
Now I feel distinctly unclean having manhandled it
Why do people buy 'em.
Off to clean my tools :roll:

should have told them the cost of the materials used in fixing the puncture was worth more than the bike 2nd hand

richie-t · Oct 21, 2008

at first i thought you fixed their puncture out of good will and their TYRE was covered in shit.

now that woulda been a real bugger!

Pickle · Oct 21, 2008

Harryburgundy":8v3va5f8 said:
a Halfords £99 job.
What a piece of sh*t.
Now I feel distinctly unclean having manhandled it
Why do people buy 'em.
Off to clean my tools :roll:

I think I pee'd a little!

Xesh · Oct 21, 2008

You think that's bad?

We recently had a customer in our shop that spent £130 on upgrading their worn out drivetrain! We told them it would be better to buy a quality bike but they insisted! If they've got that much money that they can throw away why didn't they get a better bike? :roll:

Pickle · Oct 21, 2008

Xesh":yrvaxmgl said:
You think that's bad?

We recently had a customer in our shop that spent £130 on upgrading their worn out drivetrain! We told them it would be better to buy a quality bike but they insisted! If they've got that much money that they can throw away why didn't they get a better bike? :roll:

When I think what my mint Pro-Flex just cost me, that makes me want to cry!

£70 I spent; £70! Its a DX/XT equipped MINT bike! :shock:

Xesh · Oct 21, 2008

Pickle":1hrw8kyv said:
When I think what my mint Pro-Flex just cost me, that makes me want to cry!

£70 I spent; £70! Its a DX/XT equipped MINT bike! :shock:

I'll give you £75 for it!

Pickle · Oct 22, 2008

Xesh":2wenotit said:
Pickle":2wenotit said:

When I think what my mint Pro-Flex just cost me, that makes me want to cry!

£70 I spent; £70! Its a DX/XT equipped MINT bike! :shock:

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I'll give you £75 for it!

£75 will get you the frame, maybe........

South Bound · Oct 22, 2008

Just don't go there. I just found a great GT kids bike on here for £100 - perfect for a friend of ours for their boy for chrimbo.

They are saving £10, buying 'new' and getting a heap of poo instead. Arrrghghhh. Why did they ask for my help? Wanted to buy it and put it in the garage for my boy in a few years time!

Harryburgundy · Oct 22, 2008

South Bound":18u0idoz said:
Just don't go there. I just found a great GT kids bike on here for £100 - perfect for a friend of ours for their boy for chrimbo.

They are saving £10, buying 'new' and getting a heap of poo instead. Arrrghghhh. Why did they ask for my help? Wanted to buy it and put it in the garage for my boy in a few years time!

Ah, think that would be the same one I was trying to persuade someone to buy.... I'll not try and help people anymore who ask me to look out for a bike for them, more agg than it's worth.

The geezer who I helped yesterday is a nice fella, when he said he was going to buy a bike I said 'whatever you do don't buy a piece of poo from Halfords etc'....what did he do :?: :roll:
I did notice the seat and bars were not straight...but could bring myself to touch the horrible thing anymore...besides the threads etc would probably strip and that would have been my fault.

Unclean, unclean URGH

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