Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
I have... ermmm... discussed this with her. I went through seventeen different sorts ofd social pressure she might come under to lend out a bike:
"You've got two bikes in the garage... I just need to pop out for some milk/to a party etc...."
It was a long discussion in which she pretended to listen while I spoke.
I lend bikes to anyone, but that's my choice and I can afford the hassle. She can't. Or the repairs.
I worry most about the road bike, which is a slightly tired Angliru, but which has nice kit on it and it a good, tight, fast, clean machine.
I worry most about the Angliru, but also about... EVERYTHING!
Yes, everything is a worry. Just so long as you get it through to her that she cannot trust her so called friends with her bikes and provide her with an armoury of reasons why it would be against everybodeis best interests to lend anyone a bike for any reason, no matter how short a journey or how well she thinks she knows them, then everything (not everything) will be ok.