smokeysmoo
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bolton, not very far from Nob End
All's well that ends well, have great time 
One more reason to dislike Halfords!
- Thread starter funnymummy
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biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
i like halford they are always happy to dish out bike sized carboard boxes foc
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Try www.roofbox.co.uk. then fit them yourself. It's very simple.
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I used this place some years ago. First class.
Thule Bars, Box & 3 bike racks... one set of keys fit all. Fast delivery. Super Doop.
The reason I used them was the awesome service at Halfords:
"Gary, the gentleman would like to see some roof boxes".
10 minutes later a boy of (12?) came up and pointed at the roof-box display.
I asked him if he could tell me anything about them (there were about eight on a rack).
"Yeah... Uh... These are bigger ones... and these are... uh... smaller. you can get more stuff in the bigger ones..."
That was helpful, so I got brave and asked about the advantages of the Thule ones.
He looked confused, then made a sord of 'rocket' swoosh with his arms and said:
"They're, like, more... aerodynamic?" The interrogative inflection was all his.
He had a triumphant look on his face for getting the question right and I bought online.
I buy motor oil, bulbs & little bits of bike stuff at Halfords, but I'm not sure roof boxes are their specialist subject.
Try www.roofbox.co.uk. then fit them yourself. It's very simple.
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I used this place some years ago. First class.
Thule Bars, Box & 3 bike racks... one set of keys fit all. Fast delivery. Super Doop.
The reason I used them was the awesome service at Halfords:
"Gary, the gentleman would like to see some roof boxes".
10 minutes later a boy of (12?) came up and pointed at the roof-box display.
I asked him if he could tell me anything about them (there were about eight on a rack).
"Yeah... Uh... These are bigger ones... and these are... uh... smaller. you can get more stuff in the bigger ones..."
That was helpful, so I got brave and asked about the advantages of the Thule ones.
He looked confused, then made a sord of 'rocket' swoosh with his arms and said:
"They're, like, more... aerodynamic?" The interrogative inflection was all his.
He had a triumphant look on his face for getting the question right and I bought online.
I buy motor oil, bulbs & little bits of bike stuff at Halfords, but I'm not sure roof boxes are their specialist subject.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
One set of roof bars now fitted, one roof box now fitted, one roof box now filled, one car with seats all in correct place.. I'm off tthe have the Sloe now
Great, enjoy your Hols
pfft, thats not age related..
homebase goes to get a drill, its when there was a load of press about 'employing older staff because they know stuff'.
So i ask bloke (who was probably about 65) ' i'm looking for a drill, can you advise me'... Yep the info was basically reading the bullet points... totally useless...
I would have minded a lot less, if he'd said 'sorry, dont know' , but he didnt...
years later went to b&q, asked pretty much the same from some asian lad of 'about 18' ( probably really in his 20's, but with age comes the inability to work out peoples ages)..
got reply 'oh dont bother with a decent one if all you want to do is put shelves up , this one here will do the job'.. and he was right and saved me a tonne of money .
oh and, went b&q to look for roof racks and found out all about roof bars etc ... didnt bother due to lunatic cost
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
See, the problem is he hasn't been properly trained to Halfords' exacting standards. If he had been, he would then have known that he had to run around with his arms stretched out making aeroplane noises, before stating in the interrogative that they're more aerodynamic
Oldbloke
Guru
- Location
- Mayenne, France
Oldbloke
Guru
- Location
- Mayenne, France
Angelfishsolo
A Velocipedian
- Location
- Cwmbach, South Wales
Ok, to conclude the tale......
When dealing with the nice man from Kent, he asked where the courier could leave the bars if no-one home. My house is set well back off the main road & unless you were stood on my doorstep you can't even see the gate down the side as it's hidden behind a huge hedge - I told him to leave them beind the gate if no-one home.
I went out at 7.30 this morn, home a few hours later in til just before 15.00 then shopping getting home at just after 16.00..No bars Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!
So I starts the game of luggage tetris, rear seats down, middle row middle seat down, #3's car seat out & in the front, two middle row seats down, tent in, bags in, cooler in, tent out, bags out..You get the picture
After almost 3 hours I had come to conclussion that not everything was going to fit..Ok ditch the wind break, could we all sleep on the double air bed, loose the single & quilt to go with it? Do we really need clean socks & pants for every day? How about leave the laundry basket full of dried/tinned food behind & go shopping once there..?
My poor head was spinning.. Just as I was about to retire & ponder such things over a large glass of Sloe, my neighbour appeared..."Mandy, I have somethign for you, it was delivered earlier"
OMFG BANG HEAD ON WALL
One set of roof bars now fitted, one roof box now fitted, one roof box now filled, one car with seats all in correct place.. I'm off tthe have the Sloe now
That is great news. Enjoy the holiday as you certainly deserve it
x
OP
OP
funnymummy
A Dizzy M.A.B.I.L
- Location
- Lancing West Sussex
We had a brilliant time - Eventually!
I began to write about our further events..but decided they warranted a post all of their very own!
I began to write about our further events..but decided they warranted a post all of their very own!
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
My brother bought his roof bars from them,
one mistake they made was that the bike carrier to attach to the bars didn't reach high enough for his full sus mountain bike, their response was
"send it back, we'll send out one that will fit and we'll knock the postage cost off"
"don't worry about it, I was going to get a third anyway, so just put it through as a new order"
it arrived, with the postage charge having been knocked off anyway!
mine are from them too, most helpful with e-mail enquiries about trying to get my existing equipment to fit different cars.
Yeah i bought from roofbox and they are excellent.
[QUOTE 1518774"]
Try www.roofbox.co.uk. then fit them yourself. It's very simple.
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[QUOTE 1518774"]
Try www.roofbox.co.uk. then fit them yourself. It's very simple.
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