For the "everything Halfords sells is crap" brigad

[ededwards]

......fresh meat is more purple in colour.

Sod Halfords, I'm at least a little scared that you know what colour that fresh meat should be :shock: - by any chance do you daub yourself in woad and howl at the moon? I sense already that you know that blood looks completely black in the moonlight.

 

[gerryattrick]

If the price is right and the quality is OK why not buy from Halfords or Makro or wherever. If it's not, don't. I would guess that 90% of bike riders want a cheap bike that looks OK and will get them from A to B and don't care that the person selling it isn't a cycling fanatic.

Meat shouldnt be that red either, it means is been exposed to the atmosphere at some point,

How can I get meat that hasn't been exposed to the atmosphere; cut it from the cow myself?? :?

 

[marin man]

Fresh meat is crap anyway.................It should be hung for at least two/three weeks and therefore should be very dark or even near black,I buy reduced meat from supermarkets because then it is how it should be and other people steer clear

 

[IDB1]

How can I get meat that hasn't been exposed to the atmosphere; cut it from the cow myself?? :?

Get special vacuum slaughtered/butchered/stored meat..

 

[legrandefromage]

......fresh meat is more purple in colour.

Sod Halfords, I'm at least a little scared that you know what colour that fresh meat should be :shock: - by any chance do you daub yourself in woad and howl at the moon? I sense already that you know that blood looks completely black in the moonlight.

 

[legrandefromage]

Having a butcher as a next door neighbour helps.

Anyway, back in the real world. Just stripped an un-salvageable 1992 Carrera Katmandu and the bearing race in the headset had been placed in the headset upside down... from new... both sets....

 

[highlandsflyer]

I don't tend to buy anything from Halfords in the same way I tend to avoid supermarkets, and buy my fuel from independents. In the Highlands we still have garages where the attendant comes out and fuels your car.

No MacDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, etc. for me or my family either.

I did go in and buy a brake cable from Halfords due to the fact the LBS wanted to take £2 from me for a set of headset bearings and had ridiculous pricing on a very limited range of parts; especially as the same LBS handed a bike back to one of my mates after a service with the bars roughly fifteen degrees out of line...

One thing that irks me even more than chains is blatant rip offs from local stores with no competition.

It is entirely dependent on what meat you are eating as to how you deal with it.

It is generally true that most supermarkets sell meat prematurely.

Each to their own.