Halfords survey 59% call for cycle number plates.

[classic33]

How did we get from number plates to antique furniture?

Not the strip group?

 

[Drago]

Halfords should commission another survey to find out how many people call them Hellfrauds. It'll be a lot more than 59%, and speaks volumes about their market image.

 

[Drago]

Number plate retailer in "let's put number plates on bicycles too'" shocker.

 

[mjr]

from 1971 onwards I lived in Belgium and had these natty little things https://img0.etsystatic.com/197/0/7696549/il_570xN.1301861392_ec09.jpg

There's nothing else in the picture for context so what size are they? Big enough for motorists to read and report to the feds?

 

[Drago]

Halfools reckon it will deter people from cycling badly. I'm curious as to what evidence they have based this statement upon, seeing as number plates don't stop millions of car drivers behaving like wallies.

 

[Profpointy]

Halfools reckon it will deter people from cycling badly. I'm curious as to what evidence they have based this statement upon, seeing as number plates don't stop millions of car drivers behaving like wallies.

Yebbutt cycling badly is punished much mor severely than driving badly after all

 

[mjr]

Halfools reckon it will deter people from cycling badly. I'm curious as to what evidence they have based this statement upon, seeing as number plates don't stop millions of car drivers behaving like wallies.

It's similar to how it would be fascinating to discover just how many cyclists have third-party insurance through home insurance, specialist policies and group memberships and whether it's actually more than the estimated 90% of motorists who actually have the pretty-much-legally-required insurance. That would be difficult because I suspect few cyclists outside of discussions like this give insurance any thought until they're one of the few that need it, so even many who have got it won't know it.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

So is this the same Hellfarts that has cycle parking comprising a bit of twisted metal thrown in a bush round the side of the store?

 

[mjr]

So is this the same Hellfarts that has cycle parking comprising a bit of twisted metal thrown in a bush round the side of the store?

Not in King's Lynn. Here they've got Sheffield stands, as required by the local parking standards...











...concreted in about 10cm from the shop wall so you can't actually lock both wheels unless you park sideways across 3 or 4. I'd go look if that was a breach of their planning permission if it wasn't useful discouragement stopping cyclists shopping there instead of a real bike shop.

 

[Drago]

Perhaps we should show our appreciation by boycotting them for 59 days?

 

[HLaB]

I'm not even going to read the tripe and depress myself but ask the 5 folk out 100 who actually detest something 100% of them are likely to respond but if you ask the same question to the 95 who couldn't care less only 4 of them will respond. Its very difficult to pose a neutral survey question that gets all groups to respond in equal numbers.

 

[classic33]

Number plate retailer in "let's put number plates on bicycles too'" shocker.

Sent the local DVLA office, Leeds, mad trying to register the "Beast o'Burden".

 

[theclaud]

Halfords should commission another survey to find out how many people call them Hellfrauds. It'll be a lot more than 59%, and speaks volumes about their market image.

It's possible to think Halfords are sh*te without also thinking that these gags are funny. See also Bliar, Camoron, Chipbutty and other wankery of that kind.

 

[Drago]

Its an interesting sales technique, trying to pith off legions of cyclists in the hope they'll buy your bicycles. No wonder their reputation as a retailer and employer is wedged well and truly down the U bend.

 

[jay clock]

There's nothing else in the picture for context so what size are they? Big enough for motorists to read and report to the feds?

they are small. about 8cm across

trad place to screw them was onto the nut holding brake shoe in place