Halford's new bike brand - 13 Bikes

[e-rider]

Only Halfords could put a whole load of good quality components into a pot and come out with a shite bike!!!

http://roadcyclinguk.com/gear/13-bi...9&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_rcuk

 

[Roadrider48]

What's wrong with the Gamma road bike? It looks quite good. Carbon with Ultegra.

 

[G3CWI]

I thought they looked pretty good too. Some of the range seem like very good value for money.

 

[raleighnut]

Maybe the people who fit forks back to front had been trained to assemble these.

 

[G3CWI]

Maybe the people who fit forks back to front had been trained to assemble these.

They got the number upside down so who knows! That's the downside of Halfords - very variable service.

 

[youngoldbloke]

They got the number upside down so who knows! That's the downside of Halfords - very variable service.

I think it relates to
Rule #13
// If you draw race number 13, turn it upside down.
Paradoxically, the same mind that holds such control over the body is also woefully fragile and prone to superstitious thought. It fills easily with doubt and is distracted by ancillary details. This is why the tape must always be perfect, the machine silent, the kit spotless. And, if you draw the unlucky Number 13, turn it upside down to counter-act its negative energy.
Those rear facing brakes on the forks might lead to a bit of confusion though

 

[nappadang]

All look and sound good but buying from Halfords is a risky business. One I'd personally prefer to avoid.

 

[Justinslow]

Only Halfords could put a whole load of good quality components into a pot and come out with a ****e bike!!!

http://roadcyclinguk.com/gear/13-bi...9&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_rcuk

Why would you slate a range of bikes when you know absolutely nothing about them apart from what's been written in that newsletter? Not very open minded.

 

[RebornBumbler]

It's really just community-minded to continually slate the demonic organisation that is single-handedly responsible for the imminent death of the Local Bike Shop, and likely to be responsible for the imminent death of most of their cycling customers too.

Let us just continue to repeat any previously heard tales of incompetant (and probably spotty) adolescents masquerading as mechanics, forks and threads the wrong way round, and various parts falling off - for the sake of all those starting-out and insufficiently aware of the dangers.

Anything else is just plain anti-cycling.

It goes without saying that anything marketed as a range of cycles of their own devising must be inherently garbage (and probably built on the backs of dead slave overseas workers to boot).

 

[e-rider]

Why would you slate a range of bikes when you know absolutely nothing about them apart from what's been written in that newsletter? Not very open minded.

I have also seen the pictures too, which show a number or very bad design ideas.

 

[Justinslow]

I have also seen the pictures too, which show a number or very bad design ideas.

Are you a bike designer then?

 

[Roadrider48]

I have also seen the pictures too, which show a number or very bad design ideas.

Just out of interest, what don't you like about them?
They honestly look ok to me and the top model is quite well specced

 

[welsh dragon]

I quite like the look of the gamma bike. It looks quite classy.

 

[nappadang]

I quite like the look of the gamma bike. It looks quite classy.

If I win the lottery W D, I'll buy you one.

 

[welsh dragon]

If I win the lottery W D, I'll buy you one.