Oh Bum!!

jellybellywmb

Lent my mate my Giant SCR to do a charity ride which he completed (60 miles) which was great considering no training and pretty unfit infact when his wife collected him she was so impressed and excited that she tried to drive my bike under a low clearance exit of a car park :roll: Bars snapped in half, front wheel mangled front brakes off the mount.

Poor woman was in bits she said she didnt know how to break the news, she was in tears when she walked up my drive and i thought oh crap he has had an accident or something she said " oh no its more serious i have broken your bike" :?

I now feel bad that i now have to bill them for the repair of the bike and raises the question should i have ever lent someone my bike??

Anonymous

I Don't really lend friends stuff, if it goes pear shaped as in your case, it can get very awkward. Thing is though, if you refuse a friend a loan of something that can be awkward as well.

Tough call on billing your mates, but if they are friends then there should be no question of you asking for the money, they should now bend over backwards to sort out your bike. Good luck.

Radioactiveman

Is that a carbon a frame ?

If it has had a good whack to the front and done some frame damage I would be seriously worried about frame damage. My mates bike hit the a height barrier and the frame broke in several places.

dmch2

In car racing there's an implicit 'you bend it you mend it' policy. So the owner would pay for wear and tear etc but any actual damage is for the person who borrowed it to fix.

It gets tricky more tricky if it got crashed due to a mechanical failure because the owner didn't maintain it properly...

I wonder if you can get a bike shop to repair at cost price given that your mate enjoyed his ride and is probably going to want to buy a bike of his own soon?

father_jack

ahahahahahah

Anonymous

You shouldn't need to bill them, they should offer to sort it all out.

I'd claim on their car insurance for a a Giant TCR Advanced SL Ltd ISP with Di2.

Bunneh

How much for a broken heart?

My Great Grandfather never leant anything to anyone, he said 'you never get it back the same'.

Anonymous

Bunneh wrote:

How much for a broken heart?

My Great Grandfather never leant anything to anyone, he said 'you never get it back the same'.

I know, I found that out with my wife.

Flasheart

Sorry Nap.
I didn't mean to stretch her

Frank the tank

He's obviously a very good friend else you wouldn't have leant him your steed. However he may well baulk at the cost of full and proper repairs to your bike. A real tester of your friendship.

jim453

Flasheart wrote:

Sorry Nap.
I didn't mean to stretch her

What an utterly unpleasant and (hopefully) misjudged post.

Why do people think putting a laughing or winking emoticon at the end of something totally unacceptable somehow makes it ok?

zanes

jim453 wrote:

Flasheart wrote:

Sorry Nap.
I didn't mean to stretch her

What an utterly unpleasant and (hopefully) misjudged post.

Why do people think putting a laughing or winking emoticon at the end of something totally unacceptable somehow makes it ok?

dmch2

zanes wrote:

There was I having serious cycling thoughts about how early I'd have to get up on Wednesday (to get a hour's cycling in when I can't do flexitime this week) and up pops a superb lolcat

zanes

I was unsure whether to go with the "facepalm" or lolcat meme tbh. The caption on that picture of a cat doesn't even make sense!

Sirius631

jim453 wrote:

Flasheart wrote:

Sorry Nap.
I didn't mean to stretch her

What an utterly unpleasant and (hopefully) misjudged post.

Why do people think putting a laughing or winking emoticon at the end of something totally unacceptable somehow makes it ok?

Jim, you shouldn't be allowed access to a cigarette lighter, let alone a flame thrower! What NapD put out was a pure comedy setup line (or I hope it was NapD ) Flasheart mearly replied in the same vain. If NapD was offended he is totally capable of saying so himself.

father_jack

jim453 wrote:

Flasheart wrote:

Sorry Nap.
I didn't mean to stretch her

What an utterly unpleasant and (hopefully) misjudged post.

Why do people think putting a laughing or winking emoticon at the end of something totally unacceptable somehow makes it ok?

I've had your wife too

Flasheart

It appears that someone needs a sense of humour implant.
Geez Jim453 don't be such a tightass. Everyone saw it for non offensive humourous manner it was intended...apart from YOU that is :roll:

NapD set it up and as mentioned ..& I knocked it down. That's how it works...humour that is
I'd fully expect & hope that someone here would do the same thing if I left myself open like that. NapD is a clued up guy and he knew what was to follow mate.
Lighten up!!

gregster10217

I was the one who did the damage to a mates bike last year. Completed my first sportive and first 50 miler and drove home with bike on roof. Have to pass beneath a neighbours flat to get access to our garage/parking and due to tiredness, forgot bike was on roof. Fortunately, it was quite low speed and only wrecked the front wheel, but did put a dent in the frame where the cycle carrier grips the down tube.
It was an old steel frame Dawes Giro 400 and not my mates main bike and he was only going to use it on a turbo after. I felt guilty as hell, but came clean straight away and on the Monday went down to my Lbs and replaced the wheel, tyre, tube etc and had the forks looked at.
Cannot believe your mate hasn't done the same and had it all done before you've given him the bill.

Skeltron

I never lend anything to friends. I never lend money to anyone but my gf.

Bunneh

Flash, Jim likes to troll it's all he seems to do. He's similar to Ivor and Turks, they're in the same fold.

Flasheart

Yeah Dave I did look at his previous posts.
First he was a Policeman
Then his Dad was one
Next he taught at a Muslim school

and I thought YOU had an Identity Crisis :shock:

tebbit

I liked the cat, I didn't understand, but then again I am only a fluffy little ferret

jim453

Flasheart wrote:

Yeah Dave I did look at his previous posts.
First he was a Policeman
Then his Dad was one
Next he taught at a Muslim school

and I thought YOU had an Identity Crisis :shock:

Never said I was a policeman, though I've heard someone is. Never said my Dad was one either, though father jack/ted or some other goon did. No recollection of being anything to do with a muslim school either. You may need to check your reading.

Honestly don't mean to troll. Seems to end up like that a lot though. Sorry.

balthazar

I say: lend and borrow with abandon. When I hear that depressing phrase "never a borrower or a lender be", from somebody newly met, then I mark them as a "no-friend".

In general, I think you should assume never to recover most lent things (ie, money). Your friend is worth more to you than whatever he borrowed. With something special like a fancy bike, you are in the world known as "adult relations". That's a complicated environment which cannot be dodged by adherence to cutesy maxims, or evasive behaviour. In this case, your friends clearly are expecting to pay whatever is required, so really there's no problem, is there?

bexley5200

oh fudge ive just droped the new 42" flat screen tv on my foot no cycling for me tomorow oh f**C

Teach

Are we meant to ask is your foot okay or is the tellie okay?

How's your foot will you be cycling soon