Boardman Hybrid Team two months on.

As previously blogged I recently purchased and new Boardman hybrid – mainly for commuting use but also for longer weekend rides that I’ve recently started doing.

Still a great bike, but a few build issues are creeping in.  Many people complain about Halfords ability to assemble bikes, but as I’ve said before, I’ve had issues with several bike shops and no longer trust any of them!  A bike is pretty easy and rewarding to maintain so I prefer to look after them myself.

I guess the only bike shop I have found to be truly excellent is the Bicycle Doctor Ltd. in Manchester.  The whole buying process (they let me take the bike out) and assembly of the Trek they sold me back in about 1999 was just great.  Unfortunately it’s a bit far to travel to now.

I would expect to have to adjust some things after a month or so as I appreciate that things wear in and new metal will stretch (causing screws to loosen etc.) but some of these niggles are just down to bad assembly.

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