New Boardman Range

mookie2007 · 08-02-2011 10:15am #1

Hi there,

Just wondering has anyone heard the date of release for the new Boardman Range for 2011?

I thought they would be out at this stage but still the old range in Halfords.

Captain Havoc · 08-02-2011 10:28am

mookie2007 wrote: »

Hi there,

Just wondering has anyone heard the date of release for the new Boardman Range for 2011?

I thought they would be out at this stage but still the old range in Halfords.

I spoke to a Halfords manager about buying the 2010 range cheap at the end of the year and he told me they were keeping them for 2011.

kona · 08-02-2011 10:32am

They wont bring in the 2011 untill they sell whats left of the 2010 stock, and AFAIK the Boardman range is 20% off online. Id say you will start to see them in the next month or so depending on how quickley the 2010s shift.

mookie2007 · 08-02-2011 11:32am

Right And i suppose naturally the 2011 range will be more expensive. Do you think i should just go ahead and get the old range or wait until the new models come out. Anyone heard anything on the new models. I was looking at the the Road Team or the Team Carbon if i can stretch it.

Fender76 · 08-02-2011 11:39am

The new Boardmans (and in fact the Boardman ladies range) are really sweet... there was a pic in a mag last month and it totally rocked...

Hail 2 Da Thief · 08-02-2011 11:50am

Fender76 wrote: »

The new Boardmans (and in fact the Boardman ladies range) are really sweet... there was a pic in a mag last month and it totally rocked...

fat bloke · 08-02-2011 12:00pm

I think that's ordinary enough looking...

What's their fixation with the black and yellow?

Captain Havoc · 08-02-2011 12:01pm

fat bloke wrote: »

What's their fixation with the black and yellow?

Chris Boardman is a Kilkenny fan?

Captain Havoc · 08-02-2011 12:02pm

Fender76 wrote: »

The new Boardmans (and in fact the Boardman ladies range) are really sweet... there was a pic in a mag last month and it totally rocked...

Yeah, the white one, was sweet alright.

Fender76 · 08-02-2011 12:04pm

What's their fixation with the black and yellow?

Nah, the one I'm on about was white...

Like this...

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/imageBank/b/Boardman_Air.jpg

fat bloke · 08-02-2011 12:05pm

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Yeah, the white one, was sweet alright.

Yeah, last year's ltd ed white frame was sweet too - I wish they made more of em, or had a greater range of colours. Even if it was only a splash of colour in the finishing kits - stems, hoods, saddles.

Hail 2 Da Thief · 08-02-2011 12:07pm

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Yeah, the white one, was sweet alright.

This?

Captain Havoc · 08-02-2011 12:15pm

Fender76 wrote: »

Nah, the one I'm on about was white...

Like this...

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/imageBank/b/Boardman_Air.jpg

I think that qualifies under rule 34.

C3PO · 08-02-2011 1:23pm

Hail 2 Da Thief wrote: »

Is that a "cut to fit" seatpost? Hmmm ... not sure about the young lads in Halfords being let loose with a hacksaw!!

Hail 2 Da Thief · 08-02-2011 1:26pm

RPL1 wrote: »

Is that a "cut to fit" seatpost? Hmmm ... not sure about the young lads in Halfords being let loose with a hacksaw!!

Edit: Nevermind, misread post

BostonB · 08-02-2011 6:21pm

Seems like a lot of the new ranges have dropped the spec a lot, and price has if anything increased. I'm expecting the Boardmans will be the same. so the 2010 model might be a better deal than the 2011 bikes?

kona · 08-02-2011 10:05pm

BostonB wrote: »

Seems like a lot of the new ranges have dropped the spec a lot, and price has if anything increased. I'm expecting the Boardmans will be the same. so the 2010 model might be a better deal than the 2011 bikes?

I know shimano have made some of their groupsets obsolete and moved the traditionally lower range groupsets up the range.
I dont know about Sram but this may explain the apparant lower spec. I cant remember off the top of my head what groupsets they are, but I think they have got rid of SLX and moved deore up into this, I think alivio is the new deore with 9speeds, deore is the new SLX and XT gets 10speed.
They didnt mention the road Groupsets.

The Boardman range looks sweet alright, However I can see the Prices going up as Halfords told GT to feck off and brought in Voodoo, which are waaaay overpriced, not a chance they can compete with The boardman range and the prices they are at.

kona · 08-02-2011 10:09pm

RPL1 wrote: »

Is that a "cut to fit" seatpost? Hmmm ... not sure about the young lads in Halfords being let loose with a hacksaw!!

The only person going to touch that would be the manager IMO, nobody is going to let a 16 year old loose at one of them. In fairness to Halfords, the Boardman range has to be build only by people who have been trained by a Boardman trainer.
Id be more worried about clueless people overtorquing a seatpost clamp on a carbon frame.

mookie2007 · 13-02-2011 9:16pm

Was in Halfords yesterday and the manager there told me that the new range wont be released until they sell out all the current range which he expected would be the end of April

PWEI · 13-02-2011 11:54pm

mookie2007 wrote: »

Was in Halfords yesterday and the manager there told me that the new range wont be released until they sell out all the current range which he expected would be the end of April

This is really starting to pi*s me off. I really want to buy a Boardman Team Road Bike in a Large frame but it's sold out everywhere both in ROI & N.I. They have it in stock in mainland UK but the Halfords staff told me they can't order it in & won't be getting any new Boardman's until the 2011 range arrive. :mad:

mookie2007 · 14-02-2011 9:43am

Thats crazy & very annoying. The new Road Team will probably be more expensive with less spec by the sounds of things.

TheBlaaMan · 14-02-2011 12:41pm

PWEI wrote: »

This is really starting to pi*s me off. I really want to buy a Boardman Team Road Bike in a Large frame but it's sold out everywhere both in ROI & N.I. They have it in stock in mainland UK but the Halfords staff told me they can't order it in & won't be getting any new Boardman's until the 2011 range arrive. :mad:

So buy it in the UK. It cannot be that difficult to get a courier to buy/pick up and deliver to Ireland. I was looking at this last year and it should be no problem. Budge for €60-100 delivered to your door.....;)

Needabike · 14-02-2011 1:16pm

www.shiply.com

full bike shipped for only 38 quid

PWEI · 14-02-2011 1:24pm

I thought about buying it in the UK & getting it shipped over but you can't pay for it online or over the phone. When you reserve it at a particular Halfords store you have to pay on collection.

Repolho · 14-02-2011 1:37pm

You can buy the boardman bikes online with shipping to ROI:

http://www.boardmanbikes.com/buy/index.html

PWEI · 14-02-2011 4:59pm

Repolho wrote: »

You can buy the boardman bikes online with shipping to ROI:

http://www.boardmanbikes.com/buy/index.html

Don't think so. When you register you can only log on to the ROI site. When you log on to the ROI site you can only reserve & collect,there is no option for delivery. When you try & register on the UK site you can't put in an ROI address only a UK address.

TheBlaaMan · 14-02-2011 5:08pm

Find a courier/man-with-van operating UK to Ireland. There are LOADS out there. Ask on here if in need.
Find a Halford store with stock of the bike you want - preferable in London/M4 corridor/Wales (ie en-route to Ireland so you keep courier costs low)
Arrange to put 1) in touch with 2)
Buy bike over phone - arrange for "collection"
Wait while 'things happen'
Take delivery
Ride

Simples

:D

papac · 14-02-2011 5:21pm

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

Find a courier/man-with-van operating UK to Ireland. There are LOADS out there. Ask on here if in need.

Find a Halford store with stock of the bike you want - preferable in London/M4 corridor/Wales (ie en-route to Ireland so you keep courier costs low)

Arrange to put 1) in touch with 2)

Buy bike over phone - arrange for "collection"

Wait while 'things happen'

Take delivery

Ride

Simples

:D

Or
Find an Irish store that does not have the bike/size you want in stock.
Get them to match sterling price in euro for the inconvienience of having to wait a week.(Thay have done this for three of my friends now)
When bike arrives produce your (or anybody's) axa insurance details for a further 15% discount.(Best not to mention this first day I'd say).All three friends mentioned above used my axa details.

Voila -Halfords deliver your bike from uk for sweet feck all and give you money off to boot.

Siiimples.
Is finish.:D:D:D

PWEI · 14-02-2011 6:29pm

I've thought of all these things. If I was to arrange a courier there would be no way of paying for the bike in the store that had it in stock. Halfords will not take payment over the phone. I also rang the UK customer service to see was there any way of getting it delivered from the UK either by ordering it myself or from one of the Halfords stores here. There isn't any way, they can't deliver to ROI because we don't have post codes and a shop in ROI can't order it from the UK because it would have to be couriered over.