I'm no cycling expert but I just wanted to warn people like me (cycling novices) off Halfords Apollo bikes. I'm sure that many people on this site are probably spitting at the word Halfords but I am sure that there are many people like me: on a low budget but still would like to be able to cycle to work and back. I didn't think I was asking for much: just a fully functioning hybrid to ride on tamarc roads and very light tracks, nothing fancy. How wrong was I to think that Halfords could at least reach my minimum requirements? I bought an Apollo Cascade in February and by July it had 2 bottom brackets, a drive set and a sproket replaced. I lost count how many times the gears, the breaks and the wheel spokes had to be adjusted. I never used it off tamarc roads. It was finally replaced with an Apollo Sprinter after the back wheel buckled on my way home from work (I've no idea how that happened, I was riding on a tamarc road and I only weigh 8 stones...). Well the Sprinter lasted 4 weeks it immediatelly made a knocking noise from the bottom bracket (...there's a pattern somewhere...) and it had a crack on the drive set! I now have a Carrera. I was told that this is a fairly decent bike but I'm not holding my breath....