Stuck with a bike?

[S-Express]

You lot are all on the wrong track. We should be asking what's wrong with the bike.

Radical suggestion....

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Wrong size? Ride too harsh? Too twitchy? Saddle painful? Don't like colour? Et cetera. We need to know...

 

[vickster]

Username suggesting that carbon isn't the 'right' frame material?

 

[vickster]

But, reading the OP again, I'm wondering how you'd adapt a carbon bike into ... a steel bike.

Well you can't even if an expert alchemist, which might be why he expects the shop to take it back?

 

[vickster]

Indeed. But he was asking if a bike could be adapted. If only we knew what was wrong with the bike, it would help no end.

True...perhaps he could get one of these (or disc version depending on the cf frame), transplant all the parts across and then sell the cf frame?

https://www.evanscycles.com/genesis-equilibrium-725-2017-road-frameset-EV289608
Or maybe @biggs682 has a spare steel frame in his shed

 

[ozboz]

It can be sold obv, but it depends how much of a loss the OP is prepared to take ,

 

[ufkacbln]

Isn't it obvious, the bike is just .... wrong

 

[ufkacbln]

Selling isn't always an option..... Bike Schemes, HP etc may have clauses

 

[vickster]

It can be sold obv, but it depends how much of a loss the OP is prepared to take ,

Lose a lot more if it just sits in the shed for evermore

 

[ozboz]

As said , depends if he is prepared to take a loss , offload it pay the money he gets to whoever it is on some sort of financial agreement , and cough up the difference ,

 

[snorri]

After buying my Raleigh Pioneer Jaguar I felt similarly but persisted for a few months and just could not grow to like it. A friend asked me to cycle about a bit on it whilst he watched, then he adjusted the seat and after a settling in period of a few weeks, I grew to like it.
Now twenty-one years on I have spotted some rather serious looking rust down about the bottom bracket and am just hoping it is not beyond the point of no return. I don't want to part with it, so glad I stuck with it, so many happy memories.

 

[winjim]

The lbs don't want to know

My LBS would want to know.

 

[Lozz360]

Nope. Faulty, not as described, or unfit for purpose.

Exactly. As opposed to the OP changing his or her mind.

 

[Spiderweb]

What bike is it, how often have you ridden it and what makes you think it's unsuitable?

 

[Smokin Joe]

The bike. I just think it's odd that you can't take a bike back easily. But you can pretty much anything else. And wondered what others have done

If I sold you a new bike I wouldn't take it back either unless it was faulty. Because I'd then be stuck with a second hand machine I could only get about 75% of the full price for, not only wiping out any profit but going into the red on the deal too.