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25/11/2020 at 12:30pm
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Quote: Originally posted by marg6 on 25/11/2020
ged im not! i took my figures from halfords web site and knowing what my adult kids have paid for their bikes and what we paid for ours one of which is an electric bike
marg, people who buy bikes from halfords either have no choice (cycle to work scheme) or dont know any better. terrible products built down to a price point and maintained by "mechanics" that dont understand them.
their electric bike range is plagued by so many faults that they dont even repair them, you are just handed a whole replacement bike.....that breaks again.
my missis had the metis, around the price point you are talking about, i stripped the electric kit off and put it on another bike as the parts were terrible. i had the vengeance e model, motor and battery packed up within 2 months, was handed a vulcan e as a replacement, sensor broke 3 weeks later. was handed another, same fault a couple of months later. was handed another, forks were faulty as the bike hadnt been built correctly by halfords in the first place. was handed another replacement which i sold without even riding it.
i see these words said on here all the time, you get what you pay for.
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Quote: Originally posted by gedsjeep on 25/11/2020
Quote: Originally posted by marg6 on 25/11/2020
ged im not! i took my figures from halfords web site and knowing what my adult kids have paid for their bikes and what we paid for ours one of which is an electric bike
marg, people who buy bikes from halfords either have no choice (cycle to work scheme) or dont know any better. terrible products built down to a price point and maintained by "mechanics" that dont understand them.
their electric bike range is plagued by so many faults that they dont even repair them, you are just handed a whole replacement bike.....that breaks again.
my missis had the metis, around the price point you are talking about, i stripped the electric kit off and put it on another bike as the parts were terrible. i had the vengeance e model, motor and battery packed up within 2 months, was handed a vulcan e as a replacement, sensor broke 3 weeks later. was handed another, same fault a couple of months later. was handed another, forks were faulty as the bike hadnt been built correctly by halfords in the first place. was handed another replacement which i sold without even riding it.
i see these words said on here all the time, you get what you pay for.
as halfords is the main place where those who are buying a bike would turn to regardless of the quality of the bike or not, its still their first choice of business to buy from (no i dont work or have anything to do with it) its easier for them! its open 7 days a week! and simply put there arent that many smaller bike shops around anymore, certainly not where we live. most of the bikes are ok for the sort of riding that gets done esp in the last 9 months for excercise, ok they arent specialist bike sellers, but then again those that bought in the last 9 months arent mainly the sort that would have bought that type of bike and have no use for one, most bikes will be returned to the back of their garage and not see daylight for a long time once all this covid stuff is over. just because you may have been a previously to covid mountain biker etc, you are biased, the general population has no need of a bike that cost £1500 when a £200 bike would do the same thing so im sorry to say your wrong, i am not out of touch with the cost of bikes, average bikes that people use to do average trips on average tarmac/light terrian use
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via mobile 24/11/2020 at 1:02pm
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