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Got this off ebay for £97 and it was £899 retail in 2003, lovely ride and in fantastic condition done over 600 miles on it.

Thanks a lot for the review meic i will be ordering a litre bottle from chain reaction at that great price!

Anyone used this stuff for dry weather cycling and is it any good?

Statins are the biggest con in medical history just read malcolm kendrick the great cholesterol con, i would not touch statins with a 10 foot barge pole, i have had high cholesterol for years with no ill effect.

Thank you for your very interesting post about je james cycles ibbo68. I emailed them 13 days ago asking how my bike had passed a full pdi inspection and yet arrived in the state it did, i still await their reply, am i surprised? To be honest not really as they just pass you from one person to another and the warranty department who were the only ones that could resolve my issue never ever answer the phone. To be honest i do not think that the bike had even been touched since coming from the giant factory in taiwan.

Here are the star ratings from the je james facebook page for customer services ratings. 28% gave 1 star and a further 7% gave 2 stars so 35% in total not happy with the company so i now realise it is not a one off incident that i suffered. I think the statistics speak for themselves.


5 stars 431
4 stars 104
3 stars 143
2 stars 78
1 stars 293

I was passed from pillar to post and the only folk who could sort it out was the warranty department who never ever answer the phone, they did agree for me to take it to my local bike shop and they paid the cost of the ajustments. I emailed them on the 18th of november and asked them how did the bike pass a pdi prior to dispatch and just as i expected they have not replied. I have rang over 30 times but all you get is an answer machine.

I recently ordered a giant talon 2 mountain bike and when the bike was delivered by mail order the front and rear gears had never even been set up and the back disc brake was rubbing badly. Also the front fork was fitted back to front and the bike had passed a full pdi check prior to dispatch.

Mike and rick was that on road bike tyres?

Are these any good or are they a waste of time? Anyone used them or can anyone recommend a decent puncture patch kit? Also do any cyclists on here use slime inner tubes or slime tyre liners? What are they like do they really work? Looking to use them on my mountain bike.

Thank you for that meic.

I am looking to purchase some slime inner tubes for my mountain bike, the tyre size is 27.5 x 2.2. What size inner tubes do i need as slime do two different sizes, 27.5 x 1.9 - 2.125, and also 27.5 x 1.9 - 2.25.

Why not use slime inner tubes? or maybe the schwalbe puncture resistant tyres?

Thank you very much brucey.

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