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Don't buy a kids bike from
Halfords. Well of course what I mean is that you're quite entitled to your own choice, but consider that there are far better alternatives. And then consider the tale I heard yesterday-
A colleague bought her 7-year-old a £90 kid's bike from Halfords. She told me after she'd done it, but knows that I could have pointed her in a better direction (
Decathlon is better at that price).
She came into work yesterday and told us how they went to the park on Sunday. Son was riding his bike down a long hill and suddenly started screaming that he had no brakes. It turns out that the bars had been fitted with the brake levers 180 degrees rotated and pointing down towards the BB. The boy couldn't reach them. She managed to catch him and grab his coat to
pull him off just in the nick of time.