{"id":20738,"date":"2016-07-25T12:59:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T05:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-bought-three-halford-bikes-but-they-are-too-dangerous-for-my-children-to-ride\/"},"modified":"2016-07-25T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T06:16:12","slug":"i-bought-three-halford-bikes-but-they-are-too-dangerous-for-my-children-to-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-bought-three-halford-bikes-but-they-are-too-dangerous-for-my-children-to-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"I bought three Halford bikes, but they are too dangerous for my children to ride"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI asked the company to send a mechanic to my house to set them up properly \u2013 it refusedI recently bought three Apollo bicycles for my children from Halfords in Wells, which cost a total of \u00a3369.97. 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 \u2013 where they had been incompetently and dangerously set up in the first place \u2013 for the mechanics there to investigate. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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