just bought the neice a bike from asda it is a british eagle ladies mountain bike, very nice bike no cheap suspension, it has a rigid fork and 18 speed gears a bargain at £50. i took the bike to the local bike shop and asked a price for setting the bike up as it came boxed from asda, the cheeky barstewards want £25 for setting the bike up, i expected them to charge about £5 to be honest, that is 50 per cent of the cost of the bike i was very shocked to put it mildly. maybe it would be a blessing in disguise if all these rip off local bike shops closed down, and companies like asda started selling top end bikes at bargain prices to the public.
Do not feed.
har hardy har har 🙂
Can i keep as a pet? always wanted a troll!!
Are you for real? We treat a bike build of a supermarket bike as a full service as it is quite an involved job. Heck we charge a fiver to fix a puncture.
I think I might just have been trolled?
Well.... i charge £30! If you want a job done properly you've really got to pay for it.
Bike shops wont charge for building up a bike they sell though !!
you should have given her one of those bikes you've been touting round here for 6 months...
This is a joke right?
£25 is more than reasonable for setting a bike up, which in this case will more than likely be made from chocolate components and hence take twice as long.
I think paying £50 for a bike is skewing your view as to what things really cost, I can assure you, 50 miles later on that bag of sh1t and you'll be questioning whether it was that good value for money.
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har hardy har har 😆 😆
For once, I agree with Simon 100% 😉
stops looking like such a bargain when the shop you bought it from didn't set it up right ... then it starts falling apart
Oh, I fell for it didn't I?
Reel me in!
I never thought I was that easy.
You're lucky I charge £50 for a bike build from a box, and quite frankly I wouldn't be touching a POS like that anyway. You honestly expect a bike shop to charge a fiver? You have to pay a mechanic more than that per hour.
Prehaps you should get ASDA to build it for you, oh wiat they won't do that will they?
BTW it's the 21st century now and has been for some time 🙄
And this, laydeez and jellyspoons, is why you should spend more money on a bike from a BIKE SHOP not a bloody SUPERMARKET!!! Because they don't know DIDDLY-SQUAT!!!!
Don't give him the satisfaction of rising to the bait.
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Mods, close this thread quick. Its a waste of server space.
Don't give him the satisfaction of rising to the bait.
S'OK. I had some spare capital letters and exclamation marks knocking about that I NEEDED TO USE UP!!!!!!
£50? Fifty f*%^ing quid? For a British Eagle?? Jeez you're right, what a rip off.
If you're lucky the lbs will bung it in their skip for you.
Now get back under your bridge.
Why not set it up yourself. You might learn something. Like the absolute basics that you need to know anyway.
That was probably a waste of typing, since surely this can't be for real?
If had to live in a world where I had to buy bike stuff from Asda I think I would die.
Class line from Dez 🙂
wwaswas - Memberyou should have given her one of those bikes you've been touting round here for 6 months...
He has a bike for sale, ohh could be interested.
me a dealer i could not even deal a pack of cards!
If he's a dealer, he's pretty bloody crap at it. I can sell a bike, or pretty much anything else, with one advert.
Quite a few locked threads too.
I very rarely stoop this low but what a
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A very unsuccessful dealer if he is one.
it's true, he couldn't. He looks like a dealer because he's been spamming the classified section with the same 2 bikes for over 2 months now
a dealer and a poor troll, but at least willing to venture outside of the classyflids section.
nice cock poddy i must say he his stood very erect!
He doesn't half like the classifieds... 
http://liverpool.gumtree.com/liverpool/05/55436005.html
http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=35194
http://www.thewoollybacks.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2860
"You could not make it up"
Ah, but it appears you have...
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34 Minutes in and he hasn't biten yet!! Is this a new manwells?
50 quid?
You should be able to get an immaculate s/h 17" HT Stumpie for that soon
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I'm glad I have his details, seems to have an endless supply of unused S/H bikes. Will be useful when I need another bike.
Amusingly, the character paid by Andrew Sachs appears to have somewhat more intelligence that this Manuel. I wonder how his solicitor is getting on....
Is Manwells the NEW Lee Anderson??
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Is the above bike he bought for the same niece who is his solicitor?
Cripes! Soliciting doesnt look like it pays too well these days ..? 😉
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come on where are you as i am feeling rather peckish at the moment!
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£5 their robbin you 😥
pit duck you are so funny are you out riding this weekend?
this is the same manwells who's been hawking the same Specialized at the same price NO OFFERS on classifieds for 4+ months?...
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do 'don't feed the troll' posts count as feeding the troll?