My new ride - Boardman Team FS
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blueflame wrote:Nice looking bike.... But how much did it end up costing on top of the price paid ?
Tyres - £39.98
Bars - £24.99
Stem - £24.49
Saddle - £24.95
Grips - £11.99
Seatpost clamp - £9.99
Bottle cage - £8.99
Chainstay protector - £8.99
Crud catcher - £6.98
Bender Fender - £9
Headset spacer 20mm - £2.99
Pedals - £0 (robbed from my other bike)
Total - £173.34, but it's no different to the things you'd change on most new bikes to tailor them for yourself, I should get £20 back for the OE tyres, and keeping all the other new parts safely boxed up will add to the bike's resale value down the line.0 -
billybuntus wrote:Nice. I've got a team HT and I love it.
Cheers, hopefully I'll love mine too. Certainly feels good so far.0 -
Cheers was just curious that's all, just bought my self a cannondale SL3..... been a while since I had a bike that didn't have an engine it lol,0
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blueflame wrote:Cheers was just curious that's all, just bought my self a cannondale SL3..... been a while since I had a bike that didn't have an engine it lol,
No worries, I didn't think you were criticising. I can never resist tinkering anyway, when it comes to bikes with engines I never keep them standard. I'm more used to bikes with engines too (and they're so much less work uphill, lol). The whole Boardman incuding the extras only owes me as much as the powercoating on my TDR 250, lol, or less than the exhaust and rear shock on my Street R. I wish I could get a pair of tyres for that for £40, lol, and £25 for the bars seems cheap compared to the £90 Rizomas on the StripleR. You can't take it with you, I guess, lol.0 -
Kowalski675 wrote:blueflame wrote:Cheers was just curious that's all, just bought my self a cannondale SL3..... been a while since I had a bike that didn't have an engine it lol,
No worries, I didn't think you were criticising. I can never resist tinkering anyway, when it comes to bikes with engines I never keep them standard. I'm more used to bikes with engines too (and they're so much less work uphill, lol). The whole Boardman incuding the extras only owes me as much as the powercoating on my TDR 250, lol, or less than the exhaust and rear shock on my Street R. I wish I could get a pair of tyres for that for £40, lol, and £25 for the bars seems cheap compared to the £90 Rizomas on the StripleR. You can't take it with you, I guess, lol.
Tell me about it.... I do track days on the bike £250 a pop for decent rubber :shock:0 -
Aye, the price of tyres has risen alarmingly in the last few years. That reminds me, I really should get that pair of Supercorsas in my garage sold.0
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Ugly pie dish removed from rear wheel today:
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Looks lovely but far to clean. Go get it dirty!0
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Kowalski675 wrote:Ugly pie dish removed from rear wheel today:
I've still got one on my bike, I was thinking of taking it off but I cant be bothered as its not doing any harm being on there.0 -
Oh, regarding the main pivot - its a csk screw each side of the frame. They just screw into an axle that runs through the pivot.
Stripped my bike down a bit today as I've been getting another creak/crack noise. Took the crank off to gain access to the main pivot and whilst out I removed the BB to make sure it had been greased properly, which it hadn't.
Non drive side cup wasn't right enough either. Greased the main pivot.
Also took the shock off and greased the pivots as I think one of the noises was coming from there.
Hopefully it'll all be ok later when I ride to work. If not I'll look at the horst link pivots. If they're playing up (like my last Boardman) its going back to halfords and I'll never buy a boardman again! Lol0 -
johnsav wrote:Oh, regarding the main pivot - its a csk screw each side of the frame. They just screw into an axle that runs through the pivot.
Cheers, that's useful info.0 -
johnsav wrote:Looks lovely but far to clean. Go get it dirty!
Dirty? :shock: But it's all nice and shiny, lol. Hopefully be taking it out this weekend, I'm still a bit sore, but my knee seems ok if I keep it moving.0 -
I see you bought one even with your concerns.
I really enjoying mine and I know its not 2.5k Lapierre but its still good.
Let us know how the saddle goes as I'm thinking about it myself except in white. (I like the chav look) I bought the superstar grips in Grey with the techno lime lock rings / end cap - really good match!
I'm also thinking about the handlebars - grrrr I knew I should of kept popping on here
GIANT XTC 2.5
BOARDMAN TEAM FS - NOW GONE
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kirby700 wrote:I see you bought one even with your concerns.
I really enjoying mine and I know its not 2.5k Lapierre but its still good.
Aye, I figured it was too good a deal to turn down.
First impressions of the saddle are favourable - definitely more comfortable than the OE one. I couldn't decide between the grip colours I went for or black/grey grip with the green anodised lockrings/end caps, either would look good (we'll see if the green grips get mankily dirty, lol). The wider bars feel so much better (especially with the brake levers and shifters swapped round).0 -
What's the idea behind swapping the shifter and brake over?0
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johnsav wrote:What's the idea behind swapping the shifter and brake over?
My bike came with the brake levers outboard of the shifters, so my brake (index) finger was at the wrong end of the brake lever, near the pivot. Switching them round gives (me) a much better spacing - the shifters are placed correctly for my thumbs, while the brake levers are positioned so that my index finger contacts them just inside the end crook of the lever (for maximum leverage and braking power & feel, since it's further from the lever fulcrum). The spacing was sompletely wrong for me as it was, now it's bang on the money. This is how mine are spaced now:
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Added a Bontrager Trip 5W computer today, and got a call from Halfords - replacement warranty frame is ordered and should arrive at the start of September. And the nice men at All Terrain Cycles gave me an Elixir pad spacer for free today too.
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I take it halfords didn't give you the box of bits that came with the bike then? Bit nuaghty really, plus you would have had 2 elixir pad spacers if they had!0
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Nice bike. I had a ride on one of these recently and it is very good, Its better than most £1500 bikes.
To be honest I dont trust magazine reviews, one month a bike can be the greatest thing ever and a couple months later its a heap of junk.
I have just got a Boardman road bike for commuting and its so much better than anything else for the price. Its good enough to ignore Halfords crap service and poor assembly. An hour in my work stand had it spot on.Transition Patrol - viewtopic.php?f=10017&t=130702350 -
Wise words, mine is a similar story.0
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johnsav wrote:I take it halfords didn't give you the box of bits that came with the bike then? Bit nuaghty really, plus you would have had 2 elixir pad spacers if they had!
I wondered about that, but it came with a bag of other bits and pieces (the instruction manuals, pedal reflectors, silly toeclips, couple of gear cable end crimps, rubber reducer strips for front mech and rubber cap for the headset bolt), so I figured if there'd been pad spacers they would've chucked those in the bag too. I thought maybe the bikes came from the warehouse with the wheels already fitted.0 -
RockmonkeySC wrote:Nice bike. I had a ride on one of these recently and it is very good, Its better than most £1500 bikes.
To be honest I dont trust magazine reviews, one month a bike can be the greatest thing ever and a couple months later its a heap of junk.
Cheers, nice to hear someone impartial who's a lot more experienced than me say that they rate it (although even I can tell that it makes my Carrera feel like a barge in comparison). From 20 years of reading the motorbike press, I take any magazine reviews/tests with a pinch of salt. Journos are generally like spoiled kids, and magazines depend on advertising revenue to survive...I have just got a Boardman road bike for commuting and its so much better than anything else for the price. Its good enough to ignore Halfords crap service and poor assembly. An hour in my work stand had it spot on.
Aye, good bikes, it's just a shame that you can only buy them from such a shite shop (did I mention what I found when i removed the pedals yet?). With hindsight I should've just got them to unbox it and taken it home to assemble myself.0 -
Kowalski675 wrote:
I wondered about that, but it came with a bag of other bits and pieces (the instruction manuals, pedal reflectors, silly toeclips, couple of gear cable end crimps, rubber reducer strips for front mech and rubber cap for the headset bolt), so I figured if there'd been pad spacers they would've chucked those in the bag too. I thought maybe the bikes came from the warehouse with the wheels already fitted.
You even get a basic tool kit with 2 Allen keys and a hex wrench made from cheese!
In Halfords denfense the actual building they do (I can only comment on this bike but assume all are a similar story) is limited to putting the front wheel on, pedals, stem and seatpost! Very basic stuff. Their PDI seems to be a bit of a joke, a fair few bits on my first FS were loose even though they'd been ticked off.
In other news, my rear suspension is still nice and quiet since greasing some pivots! Woop!0 -
johnsav wrote:You even get a basic tool kit with 2 Allen keys and a hex wrench made from cheese!
Can't say that I'm overly concerned about missing out on that then, lol - I have this:
I would assume that if the bike comes from the warehouse without the front wheel fitted there should have been the pad spacer though.In Halfords denfense the actual building they do (I can only comment on this bike but assume all are a similar story) is limited to putting the front wheel on, pedals, stem and seatpost! Very basic stuff.
And yet they still manage to f**k it up royally every time...Their PDI seems to be a bit of a joke, a fair few bits on my first FS were loose even though they'd been ticked off.
Yup, several things on mine had been ticked off when they clearly hadn't been checked properly. Other things had been checked, but f**ked up (like the rounded off pivot bolt).0 -
In Halfords defence, not all their mechanics are bad. The store in Trowbridge, Wiltshire has three good mechanics who have the good sense to do a thorough pdi rather than just follow a check list and they are all keen cyclists.
Unfortunately Halfords keep costs low by paying low wages so obviously they dont attract good mechanics other than people looking for temporary work between better jobs. If they payed better wages then the cost to customers goes up and they eould loose the bottom end of the market. Im sure they probably make more money from shifting thousands of Trax and Apollo bikes than from a relatively small number of Boardman and Voodoo bikes.Transition Patrol - viewtopic.php?f=10017&t=130702350 -
Still no excuse for shoddy assembly of a thousand pound product - that may not be much in MTB price terms, but it's still a substantial amount of money and not every buyer will have the tools or knowledge to correct faults themselves (or even know if they're there). Something like a loose suspension pivot or stem bolt could potentially cause serious injury. Regardless of what they're paying their staff, they shouldn't be letting incompetents assemble products that could injure someone.0
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mine is back at Halfords for the second time in 6 weeks. first gears not set. so chain came off and chipped frame, second, pedal and crank fell off..........not happy. took it in and had a word quietly with the general manager and left the bike with them. I will report back later in the week....cannot fault the manager at the moment....0
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I can't imagine that the horrible OE pedals would have fallen off mine. The numpty who fitted them must've got King Kong to swing on the pedal spanner for him. When I eventually managed to get them off (at the cost of one bleeding knuckle...) he'd overtightened them so much that several pieces of ally swarf fell out - the pedals' steel axles have cut right into the face of the ally cranks. How can anyone who supposedly does this for a living be so incompetently cretinous with a spanner? The left crank could possibly have fallen off though - the allen bolts holding that on were under torqued.0
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Certainly a pattern forming lol
I'm just glad I got my second one in a box!0 -
With hindsight I should've done that too.0
