So, this morning, I cycle my £35 bicycle with the dud pedal the 10 miles or so to the shop that sold it to me. As I enter, slightly sweaty, the manageress looks at me and says "the pedals?" (although she said it in Portuguese: despite the incredible language skills of the readers of this blog, thought I’d help you out there).
So, not an unknown problem then. They refund my money, I go and choose another bike from the racks and pay for it. I note that all of the bikes in the shop use the same pedals but, I think to myself, perhaps it is just one of those things? As we all know, things do go wrong occasionally and most often either right at the beginning of a product’s life, or at the end of its design one.
Off I go, although making very sure that I have the new guarantee in my backpack.
Hhm. 5 miles up the road, just getting to the one major hill and one of the pedals crumbles, just like the first one. Bugger. Get to the spot where I’ve had the previous two failures (the back axle on the old bike and the pedal on the interim one) and the second pedal goes. Plus, the slow puncture makes itself evident.
Ah, right, not just happenstance, this is enemy action in the form of an entirely buggered manufacturing process in the first place. Ho hum. So, looks like back there again in a day or two to recoup, once again, my money, and then to spend it somewhere else I think.
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