I bought some stuff, well a lot of stuff, of them last year when refurbing the 748. I’d never use them again. It took fecking ages, and I mean months in some cases, to arrive, they sent the wrong sizes on some bolts, wrong threads on others, and some stuff turned up in Racebolt bags! Seeing this, I reckon they were suffering then and had cash flow problems and weren’t paying suppliers. Now the suppliers get burnt which is not right. The new owners have the same surname as one of the previous owners so obviously are related but aren’t the previous owners who can’t be seen to be shafting their suppliers/creditors and then resurrecting the business. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening. It’s a rum do when things like this happen.
Dead right about the prices they charged (and it applies to some of the other sellers too)..... I have a fasteners supplier 5 miles from me who sells single nuts, screws, washers and bolts. (not the story of a lunatic who bursts into a laundry, rapes the customers then runs off). I bought a complete set of SS stainless engine bolts and many others for £8.00.
Yep. Welcome to the pages of Backstreet Heroes circa 1995.... As for their prices - I looked at their site not long ago to see if I could get a pair of red titanium axle nuts for my special and though I can’t recall the price, I remember thinking that I’ve probably bought whole bikes for less
and if the bikes are then covered in red anodised tat, they should rightly sell for less than you bought em for...
I’d like to point out for the record that one nut at each end of the bike does not qualify as “covered”
after seeing a few of @AirCon 's posts, i am now unfortunately fully aware of what that shaped object is used for.... perhaps the wales trip aint for me at all.....
I have on occasion looked for brake caliper bolts and just thought that they are A) expensive, and B) they are missing a model where the more you buy the more discount you get, ie if I got 15% because I’m buying a full set I would be much more inclined to accept strong individual pricing but not the case. Also they should stop advertising purple and red tat, a lots changed since the 90’a bandit purple phase
and now I can’t even put up a picture of a quick release anti-theft door handle without someone’s smutty mind jumping to conclusions.
