lokuttara wrote:Yeah but if you check out the 2008 Galaxy on the Dawes website (
http://www.dawescycles.com/dawes/galaxy-1.htm) they say it comes with STI shifters, but the picture clearly has bar-end shifters.
Moreover, if you look at any other bicycle retailers website they have all copied the same error from Dawes.
Judging a company solely on the basis of a clerical error on their website would be rather naive.
To quote Lenny from The Simpsons "nobody's perfect, that's why they put erasers on the end of pencils".
More constructive criticisms next time, if you please...
OK.
I've bought two bikes for my daughters from Halfords in the past (never again). On each bike they supplied a list of things that they had checked. Several items on the list that they said had been checked obviously hadn't. Example, there was a checkbox to say that they'd checked the tyres were at the correct pressure. The tyres were flat. Not a puncture, they were just flat.
One bike had a bent chainset, and it was only because I made them run through the checklist in front of me that the fault was found before it even left the shop.
Another time I was buying some bits and bobs and was also purchasing a new helmet. It took me 15 minutes between picking up the helmet and getting to the till. In that time they changed the price and refused to sell it to me at the price that was advertised when I took the item off the shelf. This is illegal. I eve spoke to the manager about it there and then. He refused to supply it at the price it had been advertised at.
I left without buying the goods, and I've not been back to that shop since.
Then there was another time when I was on my way home after work and stopped to help a bruised and bloody cyclist who'd just taken a tumble. His handlebars has come loose while he was riding and spilled him off onto the road.
He was riding his brand new "fully checked" bike home from Halfords.
So, no I'm not judging them solely from a single error on their web site. I've not known a Halfords shop ever get anything right. I'm sure others have, but I haven't. They'll never get any of my money again.