Comments on: Chris Boardman

By: Track Cycling | Cycling UK

Track Cycling | Cycling UK — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:00:22 +0000

[...] of the first times seeing cycling on the TV was watching Chris Boardman’s Olympic Pursuit title in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. It was a memorable TV spectacle; I remember [...]

By: sue goreham

sue goreham — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:40:04 +0000

my name is sue goreham and along with three other postladies i will be cycling 300 miles around the norfolk/suffolk coastline in aid of HELP FOR HEROES nothing so unusual in this but we will all, plus two spare cycles, be riding Boardman comp bikes and we were wondering if there was any way you could help get us some spare tyres, inner tubes etc in case of an emergency many thanks for your kind attention in reading this email

By: RW

RW — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:11:42 +0000

My wife wants to buy a road bike – our local shop is good and sells the ladies range of Orbeas. Despite our prejudices we decided to go along to Halfords to check out the ‘fi’ range. The staff were very friendly but seemed to know very little. they had none of the ‘fi’ range and were unable to get one in for us to look at. My wife sat on a large mens bike and was told that it was ‘about the right size’. Reading the comments above it seems like we are not alone. We want to at least be able to try a Boardman bike before we go elsewhere. Chris you need to get your bikes into other shops asap.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:42:43 +0000

i am looking at buying the boardman team racer in january, as halfords are the sole distributors why are they so unhelpful. trained staff???!!!, i have been to 6 halfords stores and not one of them has a team road bike on display, and only 1 had a racer, that being the carbon bike. how can i be expected to spend 800 quid on something i haven’t seen? i was sent by one of the bike staff in one store to an independent bike shop saying they will have them, he didn’t even know they were the sole sellers!! i don’t think mr boardman would be too impressed at the lack of help the sole distributors provide. i think they need a bit of a talking to. please if somone in the boardman industry could provide some help i would be well happy. thanks

By: Olympic Cycling Events | Cycling UK

Olympic Cycling Events | Cycling UK — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:49:14 +0000

[...] 4Km pursuit has been in the Olympics for many years, since 1962. Who can forget Chris Boardman’s triumph in Barcelone on his revolutionary Lotus bike in 1992? or Bradley Wiggins triumph in 2008. [...]

By: Dawn McCracken

Dawn McCracken — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:17:16 +0000

Good morning.

I hope that this email reaches someone who will be able to reply and hopefully let me know how to move forward.

During the last 12 months I have been cycling with our local Triathlon Club COLT (City of Lancaster Triathlon Club) and as my husband is a member and a keen cyclist, I have an each occasion been using his racing bike, this has been fine, even though it is a little “big” for me, but I have been really enjoying the cycling. As Ii want to be able to do some races and build up from just going out with the group to maybe undertaking some road races I felt it was time to invest in a new bike. I have been looking at prices types a women specific bikes, sizes etc for the last 4 months, one of the choices has been the CB Team Carbon bike.
I went into my local HALFORDS where they had a small bike on display ( I later learnt that this was only on display due to the Manager ordering it and then changing his mind when it came) I tried it and as they had no facilities where I was able to be measured properly and to test it out (apart from round the small shop) I was uncertain if it was too small, (I’m 5ft 7”)
I asked if they could let me try a Medium. They said they could not until I paid a deposit and said that I was going to have the bike…. I went to Kendal HALFORDS to see if they had any on display, the same story No bike!!! unless I was going to buy it.
My husband phone Manchester and again said that they had a medium in a box “out the back” not made up, and they would not make it up until I said that I was going to buy the bike.

All i want to do is to try a Medium CB Team Carbon Bike!!! It is a lot of money to me and I want to make sure that I feel comfy on the bike and that it fits me. You would not buy something from a shop without first trying it on hoping that it will fit!

I’m very disappointed as on the advert it says Halfords goes that extra mile. Well they have not been helpful or accommodating in any way I’m very disappointed in thinking that to get to try this bike to try you have to buy it!. Shouldn’t there be a bike somewhere where i can try? I live in Lancaster, but was willing to travel to Manchester…

Sorry if this seems a bit of a rant but all I want to do is to try the bike.

Kind regards

Dawn

By: dianne neeves

dianne neeves — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:33:02 +0000

Hi Chris I am an attendance officer for a primary school in a socialy deprived school in Kensington Liverpool our children r disadvance socialy and emotionaly and we reach children from all backgrounds including children who don’t have english as thier first language. Liverpool school have a mojor attendance problem and i aim to tackle this in our school by ways of re-educating the childreb and their familes abou the importance of attending school regually one way in which i am doing this is to have a free prize draw for 2 bikes and all the children have to do is be in school every day this system runs for a whole school year . If possible could you or a colleague come along to our school and pull out the winning ticket. We hope to make the draw on friday 12th Sept i would be very grateful if you could help us with this request and get back to me asap.

Many thanks

Here’s hoping

Dianne Neeves Attendance Officer
Phoenix Primary and Nursery SChool,
Birchfield Road, Kensington
Liverppol L7 9LY

O151 228 3831

By: Ed Upton

Ed Upton — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:54:33 +0000

Just let me design the model for goodness sake.
How hard can it be to read all of the comments on this Wiki page weekly.
I mean, this is an accepted form of direct communication isn’t it?

By: Ed Upton

Ed Upton — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:31:31 +0000

Apologies for the miss spelling i did mean to say ‘track bike’

By: Ed Upton

Ed Upton — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:29:34 +0000

Dear Chris With the run up to the 2012 olympics I am pretty sure you and /or GB cycling are already trying to design an even more aerodynamic and efficient track back than ever before.

Can I help in anyway to help, promote launch it perhaps a feature model of it or something

I look forward to hearing from you.