Sports Direct Bicycles

Argos Christmas 2011 television ad

Argos made a decision to result in the classic blunder of installing the leading forks the wrong manner on prime time TV. An expensive ovesight. About its on £5.95 for distribution in order to utilize the money you’ve conserved to get a suitable auto mechanic to set-up the bike.

My brakes don’t work precisely

This can ben’t strictly a Bicycle Shaped Object image but its absolutely shameful. More on a stupidity amount than other things. The bike below had been brought into a cycle store by a client who stated the brake system are not working properly and might the mechanic have a look to see what the issue might be…

Toys Roentgen United States – Breeze Hill Bike

Paul delivered united states this one, that he in fact saw published in an advertisement under the sun paper. Happily Toys roentgen United States have also helpful adequate to show it on their website. Its known as the Breeze but operating it will be definately not a piece of cake with those front forks facing the wrong method.

Sports Direct, Milton Keynes – Dunlop “Cold Fusion” Women MTB

Compliment of Ian Harper because of this one. Forks on backwards but its okay as this is a “mega price” at £89.99! Great exemplory case of a powerful brand name licensing its title to your item without really taking into consideration the final result.

Another from Asda!

As a result of William Parsons who submitted the photo below, taken at an Asda store in Manchester on Saturday 15th August. Forks on backwards again!

After the shame of pulling a nationwide television ad because forward forks associated with bicycle shown had been dealing with backwards Asda should (could) have made sure every store was checked to make certain hardly any other bikes have been incorrectly set up.

The notice regarding the cycle reads: “Please cannot touch display”. It should be included with: “…because this cycle is dangerous.”

Montana Mohawk MTB

This is a fantastic illustration of quick poor quality and set-up, and not a backwards facing fork in sight!

Jamie from Revel Outdoors has been doing touch to inform us about this bicycle that was recently brought into his store. We don’t know where bike ended up being bought but a fast Bing search showed it is on product sales for between £110 – £125. The cost to correctly set-up the bicycle and replace components was £80.

As a nice modification this bike does actually have its front forks dealing with the correct way, however it’s maybe not totally without its dilemmas as Jamie found:

Handlebars and controls:

The settings were all around us, primarily because they were all free. These controls should have already been tightened up before the cycle was sent to the customer – it’s possible these people were, nevertheless top-notch the fasteners was so poor which they may have become free in transportation. Twisting just the right hand hold shifter lead to the entire device twisting, in the place of any change in gears.

Front-wheel:

The leading wheel had not been aligned properly, resulting in the brake arm to get hold of because of the edge of the tyre. The forks had holes over the axle and an alignment washer, which plainly the customer hadn't understood. If the alignment washer is in fact to align the wheel or act as a safety procedure to help keep the wheel in if the fan come loose, is confusing. The truth that the customer cannot to put it simply the wheel directly into the forks and have it make directly is an obvious indicator regarding the low quality associated with the fork dropouts.

Forward braking system:

Leading brake had been lent to the medial side. Whenever using the brake system, the braking system arm came into experience of the tyre. Despite having the brake system establish precisely, this is nonetheless a problem, particularly whilst the consumer may fit larger tyres in the future. Notice additionally exactly how little the gap is between your calliper and end regarding the cable housing – too tiny to accommodate the plastic cover!

Brake lever:

Gears:

Leading derailleur was much too large over the chainset – the gears wouldn’t change at all. Once more, this would have already been set-up ahead of the bicycle was sent to the consumer. The left hand shifter switched easily anyhow, without having any impact on the gears. Once the derailleur ended up being decreased towards the proper position, it was clear so it however wasn’t planning work as it had been badly curved and didn’t line-up because of the chainset. The bracket holding it on ended up being too curved to fix so it must be replaced.

Even after replacing the derailleur, the gears however wouldn’t shift for just two reasons:

1. The exterior cables useful for the gears had been really brake cables which do not work with indexing
2. Poor people top-notch the shifters and terrible cable routing suggested that an excessive amount of force was necessary to transform gears

Boardman MTB from Halfords

Paul from Ellis Briggs rounds in Shipley, western Yorkshire delivered me personally the image below of a Boardman brand name mountain cycle purchased from Halfords. In the event you’ve missed it under all that mud the leading forks tend to be facing backwards.

Understanding frightening in my opinion about it would be the fact that this bike has demonstrably seen a large amount of operating and far of it off road. I suppose the rider ended up being fortunate to have it to a professional cycle auto mechanic before a major accident occured.

Here’s exactly what Paul needed to state:

“The consumer stated it was Halfords which had built it like that. Folks are therefore blasé about it. When you inform them their bicycle is dangerous plus they should deliver it back or whine, they've been simply not troubled. “Its simply a bike” they do say and don’t beleive that its dangerous. Even if they could pull their brake levers back toward pubs they however don’t trouble. We believe it is actually incredible. To be honest it does make you believe that someone will have to get killed before individuals realised everything had been wrong.

And people’s perception about our skills is low actually. They definitely don’t think that a bicycle takes any ability to work on. Afterall its “just a bike”. I think we’ve sold ourselves quick for way too many many years.”

“Star Wars Clones” 16inch child’s bike from Argos

Another cycle from Argos

Steve from Cycling On sent united states the following:

For your collection Mark…. Had a wheel in of an Argos cycle, at least this is where I became informed it came from. An area Autistic school had bought a number of them and an instructor took one for a ride across the car parking whereupon the front wheel all but folded.

Silverfox MTB

This photo of a Silverfox MTB was submitted by Jamie from Revel Outdoors cycle shop.

Jamie in addition noted: “There was one thing bizarrely incorrect using the front wheel – even though the disk ended up being bolted on securely, it rotated easily on hub, just like the hub had sheared in the centre and was at two components – so no front side brake at all.”

Dunlop Bicycles

a bicycle store owner sent us the following:

We have simply already been organizing three “Dunlop” bicycles which were purchased by a household whom performedn’t understand how to set them up. They confess these people were low priced bicycles, but a more impressive load of trash you’ve never seen. A photograph doesn’t show the real scale of this problem.

The repair listing is as follows.

• Straighten front-wheel (x3)
• Forward forks wrong way round (1)
• Handlebars too much – about 1″ above limitation mark (1)
• Front side gear method too high (1)
• Back wheel cones free (1)
• Brake levers improperly positioned (2)
• Straighten back wheel (1)
• Reposition Front Side reflector (3)
• Repostion Rear reflector (3)
• Repositon Bell (3)
• Adjust F & R brakes (2)
• Wheel peanuts installed wrong way round (1)
• Fasten headset – forks loose (2)
• Fasten pedals (3)
• Straighten back framework dropout (1)
• Adjust rear gears (3) (one impossible to reach work even after 90 mins)