Hurrah for Halfords!
nivagh
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Well, not really. Maybe a little bit.
Some of you might remember way back in the mists of time (February) I was saying that my employer was launching a cycle 2 work scheme in March and I was salivating over a Boardman road bike.
Well, I finally got my order confirmed on Monday. After months of frustration at Halfords' overwhelmed supply chain and in store incompetents promising to order a bike for me, and not, or promising to call me, and not, I tried to order a Planet X, only to learn that Halfords won't deal with Planet X.
By July I was half minded to order a Dolan Mythos, on the grounds that they could probably actually source that, and I ride a Dolan at the moment, but the spec of the Boardman still looked better.
Well last week I gave them the benefit of my spleen and got a provisional order and the promise of some SPD pedals thrown in. Eight weeks estimated delivery for my Summer bike (!).
On Friday night browsing the Halfords website I noticed there's a special edition of the Road bike to be delivered in December, so on Monday I went back to the store again and stood there while they placed the order and gave me a receipt.
New delivery estimate December 2009 - hohum.
Still, it does look quite nice. Just a shame the "Limited edition" is only a change in the colourway, unlike some of the other types of bike - the hybrid gets a carbon shainset
Anyway, looking forward to actually getting the damn thing now. Maybe.
(Damn, I've just noticed there's a Boardman cyclocross bike. Should have maybe got that instead)
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_229914
Some of you might remember way back in the mists of time (February) I was saying that my employer was launching a cycle 2 work scheme in March and I was salivating over a Boardman road bike.
Well, I finally got my order confirmed on Monday. After months of frustration at Halfords' overwhelmed supply chain and in store incompetents promising to order a bike for me, and not, or promising to call me, and not, I tried to order a Planet X, only to learn that Halfords won't deal with Planet X.
By July I was half minded to order a Dolan Mythos, on the grounds that they could probably actually source that, and I ride a Dolan at the moment, but the spec of the Boardman still looked better.
Well last week I gave them the benefit of my spleen and got a provisional order and the promise of some SPD pedals thrown in. Eight weeks estimated delivery for my Summer bike (!).
On Friday night browsing the Halfords website I noticed there's a special edition of the Road bike to be delivered in December, so on Monday I went back to the store again and stood there while they placed the order and gave me a receipt.
New delivery estimate December 2009 - hohum.
Still, it does look quite nice. Just a shame the "Limited edition" is only a change in the colourway, unlike some of the other types of bike - the hybrid gets a carbon shainset
Anyway, looking forward to actually getting the damn thing now. Maybe.
(Damn, I've just noticed there's a Boardman cyclocross bike. Should have maybe got that instead)
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_229914
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Oh, and not all Halfords are bad, had mine 8 months and no problems at all.
Carrera Virago Carbon TT.
The ad I saw for it suggested it had had a good review in Triathlon Plus, but I've not read the review.
They have reduced the price of the TT bike I think. I seem to remember it was launched at £999. Though a few weeks back they were doing 20% off all Carrera bikes so you could have had it at £800 which really would have been a bargain!
Wrong model.
*sigh*