Halfords boss 'doesn't own a bike'

[661-Pete]

according to yesterday's Grauniad: business section.

Glad that point's been cleared up then. *phew*! :arrow:

The Halfords man certainly doesn't fit that mould. He's a former Wal-Mart executive who clearly enjoys his food and prefers to sit behind the wheel of his Audi than on a rock-hard bike saddle. He claims to be "a leisure cyclist", but eventually admits that he doesn't, er, actually, own a bike at all - though he does have one on order. He's a retailer, rather than a bike nut.

 

[TheDoctor]

In other news, ursines defecate amongst trees, Pope eats fish on fridays.

 

[Bollo]

In other news, ursines defecate amongst trees, Pope eats fish on fridays.

Might I add that a freelance Victorian detective residing in Bakers Street is unable to procure faeces of any kind.

 

[wafflycat]

Quelle surprise!

 

[Bollo]

You can be pretty sure he doesn't get that nice Audi serviced at the 'frauds either.

 

[andy_wrx]

So what ?

Do you expect the people at Railtrack to have model railways in their spare bedrooms or spend their days out at steam railway events ?

Does the Halfords CEO have a cheap aftermarket radio fitted in that Audi ?
Or an airfreshener shaped like a christmas tree ?

He's not on the floor in the cycle department in a branch, advising people on bikes.

He's in head office, running the Halfords group - I'd expect him to be good at that, not be a cyclist...

 

[rich p]

Halfords is a motor accessories shop with a few things like bikes, camping tacked on. One of the major reasons to avoid it as it's not a serious LBS.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

although halfords did start life as a chain of bike shops…

 

[Arch]

although halfords did start life as a chain of bike shops…

Yes, and we all started life screaming and pooing uncontrollably, but times change....

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Yes, and we all started life screaming and pooing uncontrollably, but times change....

some of us end life thus too…

 

[Wigsie]

some of us end life thus too…

So in a few decades Halfords will stop selling bass bins and turtle wax and just sell bikes again?

Maybe just Kona's and Boardman's?

 

[Archie_tect]

....but he does possess a Clawed Butler [poor man was savaged by Nero the pet lion]

 

[rich p]

Halfords opened a brand new Bike Hut in central Brighton a couple of years ago stocking Van Nicholas' and Fondriest amongst others. It recently changed into a motor spares and has now closed down entirely having failed to compete with the Evans over the road.

 

[chap]

• Evans is the Halfords of the Bike World
• Halfords is the PC World of the 'Car and Bike' World
• PC World is a refuge for snotty teenage outcasts (quite rightly ostracised from their peers) who take refuge in the fact that they think they know more about computers than anyone else because they own a graphics card which costs as much as a netbook.

 

[joolsybools]

Asda man's got a bike tho http://bx.businessweek.com/growing-...moreover.com/click/here.pl?r2176301605&f=9791