Took bike in for service ...first pedal stroke wrote off bike

[Lovacott]

I still cannot believe you took it to a rubbish mechanic who you have know has been rubbish for 25 years.

Why would somebody do that?

Especially when changing out a quicklink chain is amongst the easiest of DIY jobs you can do on a bike.

 

[Lovacott]

I'm a precision engineer by trade so if it's not perfect as can be I'm not happy .

I've just had a read through of this thread....

So you took it to a mechanic who you know to be rubbish and got him to do it instead?

And even though you could see the chain was badly fitted before you used it, you went full pelt straight away and broke the chain?

This ripped out the front mech, but you only noticed that the frame was wrecked many hours later??

What kind of precision engineering do you do?

 

[Vantage]

Not to be a dick, but a bike has no built in safety devices to protect its pilot in an accident. If it isn't looked after/serviced competently, if anything goes wrong the results can be dire.
In my late teens I asked the bike shop owner for an outer gear cable. He handed me an outer brake cable. He asked me what the difference was when I pointed out his error. I never went back.
There's no room for cack handedness when it comes to your bike.
I'm guessing your bike was carbon fibre?

 

[DRM]

Yes , but however retarded I am I asked the lovely community on cc what my legal rights are and where I stand . I've had 3 helpful answers the rest of you guys should be on reddit gatekeepers. Pure toxic horrible people. A fellow cyclist asks for help and your only help is to chuck a pile of shoot on him . Nice community 👍

So you say you placed it on the turbo to try it out, my first action would have been to look at the chain if I thought it looked slack, turn the cranks slowly by hand to check for it skipping about then go through the gears before pedalling it, looking to make sure that the rear derailleur lay correctly at both extremes of it's travel and there were no stiff links, &, the quick link is joined correctly, any faults & I'd have been straight back, but I wouldn't have been back after the very first cock up, 25 years ago, if they're so bad I find it hard to believe they're still trading, but they will have public liability insurance, so court it is, because he'll deny everything and you put it on the turbo and must have given it some beans to rip the front mech off, past experience should have told you to check, check and check again before riding it

 

[PaulSB]

I'm struggling to understand how this amount of damage could be done by the chain snapping? I can just about get my head around damage to the front mech but ripping it off and so writing off the frame?

Is it really possible? Surely this is nothing more than a massive windup?

As for using the same LBS? Asking for trouble. Why bother?

 

[Eric Olthwaite]

I'm struggling to understand how this amount of damage could be done by the chain snapping? I can just about get my head around damage to the front mech but ripping it off and so writing off the frame?

I would have thought the chain snapping would have resulted in the loose end of the chain flying very quickly through the chain guide of the front mech without any damage?

 

[Blue Hills]

I'm struggling to understand how this amount of damage could be done by the chain snapping? I can just about get my head around damage to the front mech but ripping it off and so writing off the frame?

Is it really possible? Surely this is nothing more than a massive windup?

As for using the same LBS? Asking for trouble. Why bother?

I share your puzzlement.
And maybe my early morning coffee blast is getting to me, but something about this case history sounds oddly familiar.
I think the OP needs to show us some pics (already asked for a few times I think) before further advice.

 

[PaulSB]

I would have thought the chain snapping would have resulted in the loose end of the chain flying very quickly through the chain guide of the front mech without any damage?

Exactly. I've had two chains snap while riding and both simply fell off!! It's an interesting WTF moment when one's legs suddenly spin crazily.

One pedal stroke on a stationary bike. From the description this can have been no more than a full revolution of the chain ring.

The OP is on a massive windup.

 

[oldworld]

Pictures are worth a thousand words, let's see the damage and maybe people here will take you seriously and offer advice.

 

[Brandane]

The OP is on a massive windup

Exactly, so why are some responses so indulging of the obvious?

 

[SheilaH]

I'm struggling to understand how this amount of damage could be done by the chain snapping? I can just about get my head around damage to the front mech but ripping it off and so writing off the frame?

Is it really possible? Surely this is nothing more than a massive windup?

Might be a wind-up, might be a freak accident. Snapping chains breaking a front derailleur happen. It the OP had the bike in a high gear on the turbo and stood on it to get it going I could envisage this. With regards to ripping bolts out of carbon, again, it is possible, especially if there is internal corrosion.

I'm not going to accuse the OP of posting in bad faith. If he is on a wind up, fine. Would seem a strange thing to do but ultimately harmless. People getting their knickers in a twist over it is just as weird.

 

[Lookrider]

The OP has got the advice that he should follow about legal and insurance and trading standards duty if care etc
My advise for him would now be
Do nit get involved sending photos etc
On here as you will feel if your on trial ....does not matter why he went to shop after its history or why he never checked checked etc ...he paid some one so should he check check check
Do you check gas fitter work in boiler
You have your legal advice links etc use them ...and drop out this thread as any further posts regarding a photo may not be as helpful as you may think
Good luck with your future

 

[T4tomo]

The OP is on a massive windup.

Agreed.

If (s)he was any good (s)he'd have taken a hammer to front mech and frame so they'd have some photo's to back up the fanciful allegations.

 

[Brads]

So one pedal stroke, your chain snapped and ripped of the mech and destroyed the frame, but you never noticed till later on.

Aye right. So what really happened ?

 

[Randomnerd]

Poor Mr. Danger.
Two broken bikes and a crowd of cyclists guffawing as they roll past (guilty as charged).
That pedal stroke though! Almost worth the misery, just to see his foot smash through the carpet, the splintering floorboards, the downstairs’ flat’s ceiling and dangle all muscular and powerful in a haze of plaster dust