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[Closed] Bonthronebikes - shop dead?

 5lab
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want to buy some park tool chain tool pins - apparently here is the cheapest - but every link just leads back to their home page for me?? was doing it yesterday too

my end, or theirs?

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Posted : 01/04/2010 1:38 pm
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From what I've read on MBUK forums, They've gone into administration and taken a lot of peoples money with no goods delivered.


 
Posted : 01/04/2010 1:49 pm
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In administration as of yesterday


 
Posted : 01/04/2010 1:52 pm
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The original Bonthrone bike shop went under a few years ago but the shop was taken over by a Triathlon shop - SBR I think - and they keep the online shop going too. The online shop is broken it seems.


 
Posted : 01/04/2010 1:54 pm
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SBR have gone into administration too. Bonthrone and SBR, were the same...


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 9:24 am
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best steer clear then. Thanks folks!


 
Posted : 06/04/2010 12:47 pm
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This is the best news I've heard all week. Have a quick search on here or google to see why you shouldn't shop with them. I ordered a bike last October and didnt get my money back until December, and that was via trading standards. Glad to hear they've finally folded.


 
Posted : 06/04/2010 12:52 pm
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The last time Bonthrone went bust
http://www.bikebiz.com/news/19755/Bonthrone-goes-belly-up

June 2006


 
Posted : 06/04/2010 1:02 pm
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I don't think the original Bonthrones ever recovered from Evans opening a better located shop in Fulham.


 
Posted : 06/04/2010 1:07 pm