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absolute load of shite.
The staff in store are a load of numpties, and their website's cack aswell - it says it's got stuff in that isn't actually in stock at all. I've wasted a journey before on going to pick something up that I'd reserved that they said they'd got in stock, but then dind't have!
Don't bother, go to a proper bike shop and don't waste the time of day on halfrauds.
The staff in store are a load of numpties, and their website's cack aswell - it says it's got stuff in that isn't actually in stock at all. I've wasted a journey before on going to pick something up that I'd reserved that they said they'd got in stock, but then dind't have!
Don't bother, go to a proper bike shop and don't waste the time of day on halfrauds.
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Maz said:
Would assume so, been a while since I last looked in (was an excuse to not go looking at wallpaper in B&Q next door with Mrs. Pie). Had a look at the Boardman range they stock which isn't held at the other branch more local to me.
On the plus side, the car now has a new air freshener.
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Maz said:
I was in Ken Ellerkers this morning.
edit: err, no thats Chanterlands Ave.
I do confuse the two, being reasonably close together and more traditional style high streets. I live near east Park and my street 'knowledge' is woeful.
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Maz said:
Yup. Hull now boasts the largest Tesco in the North, and the 2nd largest in the country.
The rest of the city centre shops are now finding it quieter. Funny that eh?
<rant> How could the planners manage to spend £10 million+ on Ferensway and make such an @rse of it. Perhaps no one expected an increase in cars due to building a humungous supermarket in the centre of town.
Good deal for Tesco though as bus station is next door and crossing Ferensway away from it is now so awkward it discourages anyone from doing anything other than go into it.No cycle facilities other than ones that deserve a place as the Warrington 'facility of the month'. </rant>
I could easily go on, but I'll turn one of those old giffers that phones into the Radio Humberside daily phone in and whinge show.
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I had a wander round the old town area (plus went to The Deep...I was deeply disappointed, tbh) and Prince's Quay seemed pretty much as I remembered it. The other thing I noticed was that all the Jacko's had gone and been replaced with Sainsbury's express or summat. Newland Av had been poshed-up as well.
Piemaster said:
I popped in on Sunday looking for some of the cheap lights. Drove me nuts as by the escalator there was an announcment on a constant loop telling people to ' Please prepare to push your trolley off the end of the escalator' or words to that effect. How do the staff stand it? Are people really so dim they need a reminder
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I enjoyed reading that, thanks. Unfortunately, I can relate to his experiences as well, being Asian.User1314 said:My Cousin went to Hull once. He said it made his hometown of Wolverhampton look like a Benneton's advert:
http://www.sathnam.com/Features/9/to-hull-and-back
their marketing bods do obviously have an influence on the product design, however, and favour of bling over engineering harmoniousness is thus evident, for example in the boardman bike which has a front disk brake on a 2-cross wheel. To me (and also apparently to sheldon brown) that just looks wrong, but to the non-cyclist cyclist, it ticks one more box than three-cross wheels or 2-cross wheels with rim brakes.
