Fall from grace

[marin man]

GT are pulling out of Halfords soon.
Or Halfords are pulling out of GT. One of the two.

Vaguely sexual term there
It has to be gt

 

[dyna-ti]

Has to be kore
BITD they adorned the finest steeds but now nobody is interested in them.I bought their CNC stem and very lovely it is,for a mere £9 inc post
I have 2 now 1@100mm in silver ,1@110mm in black

 

[mountainloz]

there seems to be a lot of negativity over Halfords going on...
i know it's retrobike but does it have to be retro-attitude?
the place has changed a lot over the years, they now stock a lot of high end bikes exclusive to halfords that are taking the top places in bike of the year awards.
The carrera brand has evolved massively, yes they used to be the equivalent of the apollos, but now easily compare to the GT range, especially when price comes into it.
Do halfords make bike components? NO! so why is a halfords bike classed as a bad thing, the Boardman FS Team i have recently bought is one of the best performing bikes i have ever ridden.
if you are looking at the cheap end, a £100 bike is a £100 bike wherever it comes from,
if you bought one would you enjoy it? no! but hey, many people do want to buy them and someone has to sell them.

 

[tintin40]

Klein

 

[LeeDevelopment]

Poor Saracen couldn't cut it when everything went jump and downhill at the end of the 90s .

Saracen have a new marketing and design team, their new downhill prototype that is a work of art and making waves on the domestic circuit (although I don't like their new company logo but I'm a picky sod!). If they stick at this I'd foresee them becoming main competitors again. As long as they stick at what they're doing at the moment that is.

 

[perry]

The thing with halfords is the guy who built your Boardman ( unless you did it yourself ) would have also just sold someone some car mats , then answered the phone to tell someone else that no , halfords don't mot cars , it's not really what you want when your buying something like a bike . Did you also take advantage of the half price gt85 while you were there ? sorry , I have to ask or the boss will tell me off for not "pushing" the offer .

Sure there are some good bikes in there , but there are also a lot of shite ones . A lot of miss information ( no gt85 isn't a replacement for chain lube ) and a lot of people who think that paying £100 for a bike is a good idea .

Get in , find the one guy who knows anything about something and get the hell out of there .

You are of course right it has changed a lot over the years , it's changed a fooking shit load the past couple of months . Put it this way , 6 people have left and there are only 16 members of staff in the store in the first place .

 

[LeeDevelopment]

I've had a think about this and tried to look at alternative brands but will to echo both Raleigh and GT. There is another company that fell from grace but I can't comment as I'm now part of their design team with new products and they're looking good.

I had a think about Pace too, they're incredibly generic these days like so many other firms from back in the day.

 

[perry]

You've got to comment , push the brand man .

Yeah Saracen seem to be putting more into it very lately . I had a looksie at their site just now and they seem a tad over priced for what certainly looked like low end parts . I saw an £800 urban bike that used an internal hub but had what was clearly a cut down mech hanger . Ouch , for that many pennies I'd want a frame that had a specific dropout and not just something from another model . Is it that hard to flip the CAD drawing and run off a few special ones just for that bike ?

I couldn't help but think that their characters , while very " street art " seemed a bit childish ?

I hope they can leave the past decade behind them , the dirt jump bike didn't look too bad and there's that kili that has no info about it on the site . When does it get to the point where your better off cutting the brand image losses and starting over , surely it's no more effort than going through a total change with the same name and iffy past .

 

[Tazio]

I remember when mountain bikes were a new sight on the streets and every 2nd bike you saw seemed to be a Muddy Fox.

 

[LeeDevelopment]

I remember when mountain bikes were a new sight on the streets and every 2nd bike you saw seemed to be a Muddy Fox.

No doubt pushed from that god awful 'Streetwise' children's TV programme about couriers, all on Muddy Foxes!