New bike, how to break to parents!!!

[Sharpy]

Just bought myself an ex-display Voodoo Bakka from Halfords, reduced from £500 to £180. Just something to bung in the back of the car and head down to some local trails.

http://www.voodoobikes.co.uk/bikes/dirtbikes/bakka

The only problem is, I've already got two bikes gracing the garage 1) Boardman road Race for sportives and fair weathered weekend rides 2) Carrera Valour which is now a single speed commuter which is in for a respray next week (pics will be up when done)

So the question is how do I tell my parents that I've bought a 3rd bike? Any suggestions :P

 

[Saluki]

Mum, Dad. I have spent MY hard earned money on a new bike.

 

[trampyjoe]

Don't tell 'em, just bung it in the garage and hope they don't notice.

 

[oldfatfool]

Mum, Dad, you know that credit card you thought you had lost ....

 

[Sharpy]

Don't tell 'em, just bung it in the garage and hope they don't notice.

That so far has been the most popular with colleagues but my mum uses her bike for short trips around town which is often because its soo much quicker than the car :P but I'm really tempted just to put it there and hope for the best

 

[cyberknight]

Parents ?
Easy
Wife ?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Tell them it followed you home.

 

[Sharpy]

Tell them it followed you home.

"The curse of the Voodoo"

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Don't do what I once did when wanting to break what in retrospect was a fairly mundane bit of news to my parents. My mum was out so I shut every door in the house and left a note by the front door for her to find on her return. The note detailed a catalog of domestic, holistic, structural and ecumenical carnage. My mum read the letter and broke down before even getting a chance to open any of the doors to see that the house was fine, I hadn't wrecked all her white goods, violated the house foundations, written off her car or accidentally sold my younger sister to white slavers. She rang friends who rang friends who rang my dad who came and found me at a mate's house (this was pre-cellphones) and marched me home to where I found a truly emotionally broken mother figure.

I'd like to say that even twenty+ years later we can look back and laugh but no

So yeah, don't do that!

 

[Ern1e]

Looking at this as a parent and assuming it was your own hard earned cash you have spent and aslso saved a fair amount I would not say anything other than you can't ride them all at once can i borrow the boardman tommorow lol.

 

[Sharpy]

Looking at this as a parent and assuming it was your own hard earned cash you have spent and aslso saved a fair amount I would not say anything other than you can't ride them all at once can i borrow the boardman tommorow lol.

Yeah all 3 where bought out of my hard earned cash, and I bought my dad a carbon boardman frame to replace his giant defy 5's for Xmas so I don't think he's to fussed with using mine + I'm 5'11 and he's 5'3 :P

 

[SHornswaggle]

Borrowing it from a mate of a mate who is married to another mates cousins uncles daughter with two broken legs? They may never ride again so you are saving them from the pain of watching it rust away?

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Just say you were unable to buy beer and drugs like other people of your age as you spent all you money on a bike, then ask what's wrong with you

 

[Sharpy]

Just say you were unable to buy beer and drugs like other people of your age as you spent all you money on a bike, then ask what's wrong with you

That would work but I'm 17 :P

 

[trampyjoe]

That would work but I'm 17 :P

Just drugs then