Yer 'avin' a larf - !

[simongt]

Recently I posted a comment about a pal at work who had the rear wheel come off a brand new bike bought from that 'well known high street bike retailer'.
Anyway , he was out on the bike he'd been supplied as a replacement about a week earlier; a higher spec, more expensive etc., etc., and one of the pedals sheared off completely - !
Took it straight back and had a full refund.

 

[TissoT]

Why did he trust them a seconded time.

He is lucky only the pedal came off.

 

[Cycling_Samurai]

Well that's unfortunate to get a bike in such shoddy condition to say the least.

 

[HMS_Dave]

This happened a lot to the Japanese as they got closer to Singapore on their bicycles during WW2. They had to deal with the occasional allied artillery shell mind. But those stubborn buggers kept going...

I guess what im trying to say is avoid Halfords...

 

[CXRAndy]

There is nowt wrong with Halfords, as long as you assemble the bike yourself.

Or find a bike mechanic who can do a proper job

 

[Gunk]

There is nowt wrong with Halfords, as long as you assemble the bike yourself.

Or find a bike mechanic who can do a proper job

If they can’t be trusted to assemble a new bike that they retail, then there is something wrong with Halfords.

 

[CXRAndy]

Just think/treat them as a retail outlet, everything is then OK.

 

[Cycleops]

Halfords is a lottery, or as Dirty Harry once said ‘ Do ya feel lucky punk, we’ll do ya?’.

 

[Drago]

Pre ride checks. Jumping in/on any vehicle and automatically expecting it not to try and kill you, and then being surprised when one day it does, is not a recipe for a long and healthy life.

 

[Electric_Andy]

That happened to me about 12 years ago. Bought a new Carerra, got about 8 miles from home in the middle of woods and a pedal sheared off. I had to use my shoe lace to tie one foot to the working pedal, and limped home using one leg

 

[Mike Ayling]

Are there ant pics of the sheared off pedal?

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Are there ant pics of the sheared off pedal?

Indeed, and how exactly did a pedal "shear off"? I've never known such a thing.

 

[Beebo]

It could be a manufacturing issue or a construction issue. Halfords may be blameless.

 

[Venod]

A few years ago I was out on an old MTB, the crank came loose, I had no way to tighten it, I was about a mile from Halfords, so I called in, the mechanic sourced a new crank bolt and torqued it correctly, no charge.

 

[TissoT]

More than likely to be a cross thread when the pedal was installed by the skilled workforce.