Property News · July 25, 2016

I bought three Halford bikes, but they are too dangerous for my children to ride


I asked the company to send a mechanic to my house to set them up properly – it refusedI recently bought three Apollo bicycles for my children from Halfords in Wells, which cost a total of £369.97. Back home my youngest daughter went for a short ride whereupon the rear brake completely seized. I had a quick look and it was evident that the bike had been set up in such a way that had caused the brake cable to become snagged around the front of the bike, and upon turning the handlebar the rear brakes had suddenly been applied. I looked at the other two bikes and found that these too had been set up in a potentially dangerous manner. I contacted Halfords and asked that it send a competent mechanic to my house in order to safely set the bikes up, but it refused, asking me instead to return the bikes to the same store – where they had been incompetently and dangerously set up in the first place – for the mechanics there to investigate. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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