Halfords on redit

[maxcherry]

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ ... the_irony/


From talking about a lorry getting stuck under a bridge, to a full on rants about Halfords mechanics.

I never knew that some staff were trained to only fix/fit certain things and not trained to be full on mechanics!
So one person may be able to put a bike together but if it involves fixing something mechanical with the bike, then it's
up to the customer to tell them they have a problem! and not the other way round.

I don't know if the people who say they are ex Halfords staff are real but it seems very odd. What if they miss a fault
that could cause injury, or damage the bike.

[maxcherry]

Sorry posted in the wrong place. Supposed to be the 'Tea Shop'

[DaveGos]

Halfords specialise in incompetents , I ended up rushed to A and E in an ambulance after a cross threaded crank on a bike less than 24 hours out of the shop , and they wont even inspect the bike DONT USE HALFORDS

[TrevA]

I was talking to one of the guys in the local Halfords and he said that they have to receive extra training if they are putting together a Boardman bike, presumably because Chris doesn't want Spanner Monkeys assembling his bikes!

[nez]

How do you cross thread a crank? Do you mean the pinch bolts?

[Bicycler]

I've witnessed a shop assistant ask if the customer would like their bars turning round (they must store them sideways). When the customer provided the inevitable answer the assistant turned the bars and set about getting the stem bolts securely very tight... ...after he'd similarly tightened the (a)headset bolt securely very tight!

[661-Pete]

Years ago, when my wife was still commuting by train, there was a landslip on the London-Brighton line and they ran a replacement bus service for a while. One day they sent a double-decker, for some reason, and the driver chose to take it along a route where a double-decker certainly doesn't fit! Luckily, some of the passengers started screaming and the driver stopped just in time...

How do you cross thread a crank? Do you mean the pinch bolts?

I presume he means the bolt came off a tapered crank, and the crank then worked loose. Happened to me once, but it was my fault , and luckily I didn't crash.