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On Friday last week I went to Halfords to look at a Boardman ADV 8.9,
I checked the bike over and said I would be back when I got discount credits
sorted.
I went back today and paid for the bike, took it home.
First small issue, the crimped on end on the derailleur cable came off in my hand
as I was wrapping a Velcro strap around the down tube, its part of the fitting
to hold the pump onto the bottom of the seat tube, this resulted in the wire un ravelling,
but I looked closer and it was unravelled even as it passed through the clamp that holds
it to the front derailleur, so I twisted it up and put another on, but it does not look well on a new
bike, and it will unravel even more if I need to make an adjustment to the cable.
Then I started to check the tyre pressures, and as I did, I could see paint flaking off the spokes
here and there, I investigated, and two spokes, one on each wheel are marked, like they were
squeezed with a tool, these marks in my opinion are what caused the paint to flake off,
but they are going to weaken the effected spokes too.
I do not think this is acceptable for a new bike, and if I take it back, am worried what else will
be scratched or damaged during any repair, will the tyres will have to come off, so rims could get roughed up, tube out, old nipple / spokes out, new ones put in, and all put back together, and tensioned.
I just cant believe or see how a spoke can have a track in it on both sides of the two spokes in
question, other spokes are rough too, and am almost afraid to uncover any more marks.
Should I take it back and get it repaired, do I have a right to do this, I feel I should do for its not
my fault it came this way.
Other than these problems, I do like the bike, it fits perfect, am 5'7 1/2, the bike is the small
size, 50.5 marked on the frame, like the splayed drops, and the wide tyres soak up all the bumps.
What would you all do if you got a new bike with these issues, I never had a broken spoke and
am concerned the tool marks on either side of the spoke will weaken it, and I will eventually stretch
causing issues, or break, and to be honest, the inner cable for the front mech needs replaced,
and one of the shifter cables is on the wring side of the head tube and is way too tight when I
turn right, for all I know it could have pulled the front cable loose in the derailleur arm, it is tight
and rubs against the head tube so strongly I had to wrap it in cloth to take the bike out to test it,
this was not the case the Friday I looked it over, for they only had just took it out of the box the bars
were only sat on and hand tight, I also asked them to leave the bike like this so I could torque it
myself, but toady they had them tightened up, sideways ever so slightly.
Any comments welcome
On Friday last week I went to Halfords to look at a Boardman ADV 8.9,
I checked the bike over and said I would be back when I got discount credits
sorted.
I went back today and paid for the bike, took it home.
First small issue, the crimped on end on the derailleur cable came off in my hand
as I was wrapping a Velcro strap around the down tube, its part of the fitting
to hold the pump onto the bottom of the seat tube, this resulted in the wire un ravelling,
but I looked closer and it was unravelled even as it passed through the clamp that holds
it to the front derailleur, so I twisted it up and put another on, but it does not look well on a new
bike, and it will unravel even more if I need to make an adjustment to the cable.
Then I started to check the tyre pressures, and as I did, I could see paint flaking off the spokes
here and there, I investigated, and two spokes, one on each wheel are marked, like they were
squeezed with a tool, these marks in my opinion are what caused the paint to flake off,
but they are going to weaken the effected spokes too.
I do not think this is acceptable for a new bike, and if I take it back, am worried what else will
be scratched or damaged during any repair, will the tyres will have to come off, so rims could get roughed up, tube out, old nipple / spokes out, new ones put in, and all put back together, and tensioned.
I just cant believe or see how a spoke can have a track in it on both sides of the two spokes in
question, other spokes are rough too, and am almost afraid to uncover any more marks.
Should I take it back and get it repaired, do I have a right to do this, I feel I should do for its not
my fault it came this way.
Other than these problems, I do like the bike, it fits perfect, am 5'7 1/2, the bike is the small
size, 50.5 marked on the frame, like the splayed drops, and the wide tyres soak up all the bumps.
What would you all do if you got a new bike with these issues, I never had a broken spoke and
am concerned the tool marks on either side of the spoke will weaken it, and I will eventually stretch
causing issues, or break, and to be honest, the inner cable for the front mech needs replaced,
and one of the shifter cables is on the wring side of the head tube and is way too tight when I
turn right, for all I know it could have pulled the front cable loose in the derailleur arm, it is tight
and rubs against the head tube so strongly I had to wrap it in cloth to take the bike out to test it,
this was not the case the Friday I looked it over, for they only had just took it out of the box the bars
were only sat on and hand tight, I also asked them to leave the bike like this so I could torque it
myself, but toady they had them tightened up, sideways ever so slightly.
Any comments welcome
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