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

[Chislenko]

To be fair though Barry Danger is a cracking user name.

 

[classic33]

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?

It can, once it has parted company with the rear freewheel/block, fly forward ahead of the chainring. You then end up pulling it from the front, over the top of the cage.

Done it once with a 62 chainring, but didn't damage the bike.

 

[Blue Hills]

Psstt it's a joke

they've been spending too long in the NACAs yard.

 

[steveindenmark]

Temperature affects the nature and behaviour of all materials.

It certainly does my flesh and bones.

This post has got to be a wind up. Hasn`t it?

 

[SheilaH]

they've been spending too long in the NACAs yard.

Yes, the brain rotting effect of reading your output in there

 

[Drago]

To be fair though Barry Danger is a cracking user name.

No one took him seriously as Barry Chuckle.

 

[Dogtrousers]

A very similar thing happened to me once. I'd had a rear wheel trued and left the whole bike with them. I picked the bike up and they hadn't tightened the wheel nuts properly (it wasn't that long ago but it was quite an old bike) When I rode off I pulled the rear wheel out of line and jammed it against the chainstay, which was a bit annoying.

OK it didn't write off the entire bike, but it made me tut rather crossly.

 

[DaveReading]

OP seems to have disappeared.

I'd like to think he's gone off to take some photos of the damage that he can post on here. But I'm not holding my breath.

 

[davidphilips]

Dont know if this threads a wind up, silly joke or if there is some sort of dispute about a bike repair but maybe all will be revealed by the first of April?

 

[Juan Kog]

Carbon frames are known for fragmenting into thousands of pieces if hit by a chain. Especially when it’s around freezing.

Or raining

I’m surprised Skipdiver hasn’t been along and given us his thoughts on plastic bike frames.

 

[Tribansman]

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Dont know if this threads a wind up, silly joke or if there is some sort of dispute about a bike repair but maybe all will be revealed by the first of April?

I treat these sort of threads as wind ups orchestrated by timewasters with nothing better to do. When you read half of them thoroughly the alleged happening has little real-world credibility. Some forum members, who ought to know better, don't help either by actually bothering to furnish a helpful response. All you are doing is wasting your own time and encouraging these idiots to post more dross. Save the considered sensible responses for those questions posed by genuine riders not timewasting wind-up merchants.

 

[Randomnerd]

I treat these sort of threads as wind ups orchestrated by timewasters with nothing better to do. When you read half of them thoroughly the alleged happening has little real-world credibility. Some forum members, who ought to know better, don't help either by actually bothering to furnish a helpful response. All you are doing is wasting your own time and encouraging these idiots to post more dross. Save the considered sensible responses for those questions posed by genuine riders not timewasting wind-up merchants.

Cmon. If his first post was “ I found a Raleigh steel bike in a skip, what should I do?” you’d be on to him like a rat up a drainpipe!

Btw, you reckon he pronounces it as in “anger” or “angel”? I reckon they’re all Reg, having a laugh from beyond the grave.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

One of Barry’s videos


View: https://youtu.be/G9rG90RRndo

 

[MontyVeda]

A very similar thing happened to me once. I'd had a rear wheel trued and left the whole bike with them. I picked the bike up and they hadn't tightened the wheel nuts properly (it wasn't that long ago but it was quite an old bike) When I rode off I pulled the rear wheel out of line and jammed it against the chainstay, which was a bit annoying.

OK it didn't write off the entire bike, but it made me tut rather crossly.

I'll do most of my own repairs, but fitting a new headset i felt was beyond me. So I took my bike to a shop for a new headset. They gave it back to me with the front brakes set with the blocks right up to the rim leaving no play in the lever, and the back brakes so loose the blocks didn't touch the rim when pulling the lever The headset seemed OK though