As you and I already know, Halfords is FUCKING SHIT!!!!

[Herbsman.]

All the bike shops are closed on Mondays so I had to go to Halfords.

The cheapest innertube in there cost £4.50. What a fucking rip-off.

When I got back to work (luckily not too far away) with the tube, it must have been a manufacturing defect, because it was far too big to fit a 700c wheel. When I put the tube in the tyre, the tyre had been filled but there was still loads of tube left outside the tyre; the tube was about 25cm too long in its circumference. I compared it to the original tube to confirm this.

I took it back, not wanting to risk the same thing happening again, I got a refund for the new tube and bought a repair kit to repair the old tube.

The repair kit had nothing in it but a piece of chalk and a crayon.

 

[snadge]

The repair kit had nothing in it but a piece of chalk and a crayon.

should have cut the excess off the inner tube and used that.

 

[Errol's son]

A little adjustable spanner is over £7.00 in Halfords!

 

[Herbsman.]

A little adjustable spanner is over £7.00 in Halfords!

 

[mwgdrwg]

That's why they call 'em Halfrauds.

 

[moomoo]

I worked for them for about 15 years but got bored of men getting excited over car stereos and the like

I was soooo not interested!

 

[shave]

The cheapest innertube in there cost £4.50. What a fucking rip-off.

How much do you normally pay for an inner tube???

 

[Herbsman.]

How much do you normally pay for an inner tube???

£3.99 maximum, but that's from a larger, fairly expensive bike shop. £3 from the smaller bike shops and online shops.

 

[shave]

Bloody hell, I've been shelling out £6 for as long as I can remember
wakey wakey

 

[Herbsman.]

You are insane. You can get deals, like 10 tubes for £20

Back in the day I think I remember getting 10 for £15 (20" for BMX)

 

[I'm Simes]

You are insane. You can get deals, like 10 tubes for £20

Back in the day I think I remember getting 10 for £15 (20" for BMX)

I've bought into a deal like this and have found that they lose air very quickly (over two weeks can go from 40psi to 15psi)

The £4.50 one I bought a couple of weeks is still holding 90psi.

 

[Herbsman.]

Mine have always been fine. I ran my BMX tyres at 70psi.

 

[northernhord]

A coupla years ago I bought a back wheel, tyre and innertube from Halfords, it actually cost more than what it would cost for buyung the same for a small car, fuckin robbin cunts

 

[mtbskalover]

did buy a nice set of cone spanners from halfords this summer.

otherwise they are wank!

 

[bi0boy]

they do sell a good electronic tyre pressure guage.

 

[Herbsman.]

btw sorry for swearing in capitals in the title. it would have been alright in non capital letters.

 

[jontibs]

I think Halfords is pretty good for tools. Their 'Professional' range was always really good, though quite pricey. Good tools are never cheap anyway.

 

[Herbsman.]

Park Tools are better value than halfords tools though