I may never see my road bike again

[shouldbeinbed]

I've let son 1 take it home with him for his ridiculously early starts and late finishes to save him the taxi fares.

he has a poor record of keeping hold of bikes & I've taken copious photos & written description & inventory of the parts. Luckily some of my changes and replacements have made an already unusual bike even more unique.

Fingers crossed this one survives to come home again.

 

[Saluki]

Oh good luck. I hope that your son takes care of your bike and remembers to lock it up when he's at work.

 

[Sara_H]

I've let son 1 take it home with him for his ridiculously early starts and late finishes to save him the taxi fares.

he has a poor record of keeping hold of bikes & I've taken copious photos & written description & inventory of the parts. Luckily some of my changes and replacements have made an already unusual bike even more unique.

Fingers crossed this one survives to come home again.

You are very brave. My step sons have a very poor record with bikes. I'd never let one of them borrow a bike.
Last year step son 2 has "lost" his own bike so OH let him borrow my folding bike. When he came back he had had a pucture, the innertube was out of the tyre and wrapped round the mechanism He claims he has no idea how this happened!

 

[uphillstruggler]

Buy him a cheap second hand bike instead.

Worry over

 

[DCLane]

We realised No 1 son (age 13) needed a new bike whilst on holiday this year.

Cue us suggesting we buy a new one when we're back home. Oh no, he looked at my budget summer MTB - a Felt Q200 (prior to a CTW one) and said "I can fit on that". Despite us thinking he couldn't, we set it up for him and it's now his. He doesn't care what it is or how much it cost and we saved some cash

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Buy him a cheap second hand bike instead.

Worry over

did think about that but restocking the coffers after Christmas and other things to pay for too take priority, also its already insured, I know it is mechanically sound and will not let him down and it is a bit different to the usual stuff out there so if it does go Walkies, it'll be easy to spot on gumtree or in the local cash converter type places.

 

[uphillstruggler]

did think about that but restocking the coffers after Christmas and other things to pay for too take priority, also its already insured, I know it is mechanically sound and will not let him down and it is a bit different to the usual stuff out there so if it does go Walkies, it'll be easy to spot on gumtree or in the local cash converter type places.

Fair enough, best of luck.

 

[MarkF]

I had mint old steel GT Outpost that I used on the canal, it's acid house red paint scheme was perfect. My youngest son has used it for his paper round for about 18 months and it's now a wreck. But, as long as he keeps cycling..........

 

[gbb]

I know what you all mean...my 28 year old son always destroyed bikes as a kid, buckled wheels, 'left em' somewhere ??? or loaned them to mates...
He's thankfully grown out of that for the most part, but he did crash into a lampost maybe a year ago, killing a non drive crank and bending the handlebars.
I do occasionally lend him (grudgingly) my old but good Trek hybrid, but never, ever, my good bikes. He's got a scooter now, but last time he used a bike...he came home with the saddle in his bag ???
It 'fell off'....i went to fit it back and of course the upper clamp was gone. Where is it i asked ?..oh i dunno, i heard something fall off but didnt think it would be important.
Argghhhhhh....so MY bike had to be robbed to get him going again. Then HIS bike mysteriously disappeared, with MY clamp on it. Thats the second time its been 'lost'. It was a clunker, but a reliable one. No consequence to him, he's got his scooter now. Yeah, thanks son !

 

[Globalti]

It's not just bikes, it's all possessions that get wrecked or lent or lost or stolen. Mysteriously, it's never their fault.

My Mum used to say: "Neither a lender nor a borrower be!" and she was right; the number of times I've lent things and they've come back damaged. A friend of mine borrowed our family Vango Force 10 tent and left it in his car boot, which he had painted inside with black bitumen underseal. His can of petrol leaked, melted the bitumen, which soaked into the rolled-up tent leaving a lovely black inkblot pattern right across both sides of the flysheet. He didn't buy a new flysheet.

 

[uphillstruggler]

It's not just bikes, it's all possessions that get wrecked or lent or lost or stolen. Mysteriously, it's never their fault.

My Mum used to say: "Neither a lender nor a borrower be!" and she was right; the number of times I've lent things and they've come back damaged. A friend of mine borrowed our family Vango Force 10 tent and left it in his car boot, which he had painted inside with black bitumen underseal. His can of petrol leaked, melted the bitumen, which soaked into the rolled-up tent leaving a lovely black inkblot pattern right across both sides of the flysheet. He didn't buy a new flysheet.

Ex mate?

 

[swee'pea99]

Asked my youngest how the new pen was working out (on its first day): 'Fine - up until third period, when it got stolen.'