Chain Reaction

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rico

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7,916 posts

256 months

Thursday 24th August 2006
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Chain Reaction have further impressed me. Ordered some bits on Tuesday night at about midnight, already arrived!

They don't stock everything and have a smallish selection of frames, forks etc, but for components they're superb.

www.chainreactioncycles.com

Not associated with company, just a heads up

White_van_Man

3,846 posts

250 months

Thursday 24th August 2006
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iv used them alot in the past and always had a good service from themthumbup

up-the-dubs

4,282 posts

230 months

Thursday 24th August 2006
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Used them a few months ago for the first time, very good yes.

Stu247

811 posts

247 months

Thursday 24th August 2006
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I have been using them on and off for years !!

Would you believe they used to be a small local bike shop before going into the mail order business !

And I mean small !!, I remember going in for a rear mech about 10 years a ago and most of their stock was in a loft accessed via a small hatch in the ceiling of the shop !!

Their new custom warehouse is something else...massive !! and they have just opened a new shop on the premises.

Very impressive and highly recommended thumbup

I have even got stuff posted to the house and I'm only 20 miles down the road paperbag

thepickle

975 posts

227 months

Thursday 24th August 2006
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rico said:
Chain Reaction have further impressed me. Ordered some bits on Tuesday night at about midnight, already arrived!
I also ordered some stuff from them same day, same time as you (spooky!) but I'm still waiting. It seems totally unreasonable for me to be getting a bit twitchy wondering where my stuff is, but my last order with them was put in at 4pm Friday and arrived 9:30am Saturday!!! Every order I've had with them has arrived the next day so standards must be slipping! silly Seriously, I've nothing but good things to same about them thumbup

Parrot of Doom

23,075 posts

235 months

Thursday 24th August 2006
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I've used them for some bits, extremely fast delivery and good customer support - I had a quick email from them when I questioned a fault on a headset I bought.

deevlash

10,442 posts

238 months

Thursday 24th August 2006
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yep i got my whole groupset from them and it arrived promptly and shiny

rico

Original Poster:

7,916 posts

256 months

Thursday 24th August 2006
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thepickle said:
I also ordered some stuff from them same day, same time as you (spooky!) but I'm still waiting. It seems totally unreasonable for me to be getting a bit twitchy wondering where my stuff is


My mate also ordered some bars at a similar time and hasn't got his yet. I must have been lucky

pombstard

6,833 posts

243 months

Friday 25th August 2006
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Big thumbs up here too.

Me and many others use them in Oz - fast and cheaper than buying locally for parts, often half price, including postage.

thepickle

975 posts

227 months

Saturday 26th August 2006
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An update for you, my stuff came yesterday lunch time. One of the things I ordered was a bike computer. All that turned up was the computer attached to an empty box! It should have had wires, mount, magnet + instructions....basically everything you need to use it. So I emailed CR about it, after forwarding a copy of the invoice, they processed an order for all the parts I was missing straight away. This was at 4pm yesterday, all the bits arrived with this mornings post. So they messed up, but sorted it out very impressively thumbup This is the first problem I’ve had with them after a few orders so you really timed it well starting this thread hehe

Graham.J

5,420 posts

260 months

Sunday 27th August 2006
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CR have always been my first port of call for bike stuff. Ditto with my friends. Top notch company.

busta

4,504 posts

234 months

Monday 28th August 2006
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I've dealt with them lots and have largely been impressed. My only gripe is I've had one badly built wheel from them that never ran true, despite much spoke fettling and nipple tweaking. That said, the last set of wheels I bought from them are still true after a year of heavy usage with not even so much as one twist of a nipple.

Bernie

alfaman

6,416 posts

235 months

Wednesday 30th August 2006
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I have bought a wheel from them , plus other bits .... VERY fast delivery and good service, will use them again.

JOHNSTON

170 posts

216 months

Thursday 31st August 2006
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I've just this very minute got a delivery from chainreaction and i would highly recommend them