Ooh, can I now pay to pointlessly have nitrogen in my bike tyres without being asked too?
Drop your bikes off at mine and I’ll fill them with 78% nitrogen for 50% of the price. Bargain. Form an orderly queue please.
Ooh, can I now pay to pointlessly have nitrogen in my bike tyres without being asked too?
Drop your bikes off at mine and I’ll fill them with 78% nitrogen for 50% of the price.
Ooh, can I now pay to pointlessly have nitrogen in my bike tyres without being asked too?
I think you've nailed it in one, I can't see it lasting, reading the article their chasing Cargo & E-bike delivery fleetsI can see it now. Go in to have a puncture fixed (for anyone who doesn't DIY) and get told you need new chain, cassette, tyres, wheel bearings, bottom bracket, and headset. All of which can be done but you'll need to leave the bike for 2 days as it's in such dangerous condition, and it will only cost you a lot more than the bike is worth!
Funny that someone just mentioned Kwik Fit. I was looking for a car park in the city centre for tomorrow and realised there's one of their places near where I need to get. Turns out it's actually cheaper to drop of the car in the morning, let them do the wheel alignment, and pick it up in the afternoon, then it would be to pay for parking. Win-win.
They did the same to Volvo. Ruined the product by using cheap Ford engines and components which brought about a marked drop and qua,ity and, consequently, sales, then sold it a few years later for barely a quarter what they had paid for it. 5 minutes later the Chinese have turned it round and are making the killing that Ford didn't have the nouse to do.I worked at Ford during the 90's when Jac Nasser (known as Jac the knife) was the senior guy, and Ford bought Aston Martin, Jaguar, Volvo amongst others. To our disbelief Kwikfit was also bought (I think the idea was to direct exhausts/tyre trade from Main Dealers to kwikfit.)
Ford reputedly bought Kwikfit for £1 Billion and then later sold it for £1 million - not a good business decision.