What happens to your bikes when you die

[hoopdriver]

I’ll take my favourite bike with me and leave the rest behind...
Hmmmm, which one is my favourite?
Depends on the terrain up there, I suppose

Who says you're going up?

 

[hoopdriver]

Well if it's Carbon Fibre the best you can hope is someone will hang it on the wall. Would anyone risk riding a ancient Carbon Fibre bike?

Someone who wants to join you?

 

[biggs682]

Bloody good question

I went to see a few retro 60's bikes a while back , where a non cyclist neighbour had been given the job of clearing out a shed with 4 nice quality bikes in as the elderly gentleman owner had fallen over and his wife didnt want him to fall of his bikes next so whilst he was in hospital she asked this chap who lived next door to her to get rid off them quick without tell her husband .

i just couldnt buy them as i felt it was a really nasty thing to do and promptly told the guy and beat a hasty retreat

 

[Salad Dodger]

My wife will sell all my bikes and all my guitars for £50 each. That's what I told her I paid for them........

 

[Blue Hills]

Bloody good question

I went to see a few retro 60's bikes a while back , where a non cyclist neighbour had been given the job of clearing out a shed with 4 nice quality bikes in as the elderly gentleman owner had fallen over and his wife didnt want him to fall of his bikes next so whilst he was in hospital she asked this chap who lived next door to her to get rid off them quick without tell her husband .

i just couldnt buy them as i felt it was a really nasty thing to do and promptly told the guy and beat a hasty retreat

Cripes, that's terrible.
Rather reminds me of a brief exchange on a midlands ctc ride years ago. Someone commented how a certain chap (probably retired) was out and about on his bike a lot, to which a fellow rider philosophically replied "have you met his wife"?

 

[Tin Pot]

Prompted from another thread.
Am lucky my other half knows the value of them. but i am hoping they will get handed down to one of my granddaughters.
where would you like to see yours go.

When I die I'd like the bits of my bike to be pulled out of the car bonnet, fashioned into a javelin, and used to impale the driver who did it.

 

[PeteXXX]

Who says you're going up?

Valid point

 

[PeteXXX]

Which has the most heat resistant tyres?

I’ll get back to you on that. Gotta read the spec sheet

 

[chriswoody]

Well one of mine will be donated to the local zoo for the Panda's

 

[Drago]

Bloody good question

I went to see a few retro 60's bikes a while back , where a non cyclist neighbour had been given the job of clearing out a shed with 4 nice quality bikes in as the elderly gentleman owner had fallen over and his wife didnt want him to fall of his bikes next so whilst he was in hospital she asked this chap who lived next door to her to get rid off them quick without tell her husband .

i just couldnt buy them as i felt it was a really nasty thing to do and promptly told the guy and beat a hasty retreat

Funny you mention that. There was an ad in the Wellingborough Gazette, a woman advertising for someone to take her husbands bikes away while he was at work. I've got the phone number if you're interested - ring it and ask for Mrs Biggs.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

My bikes will make a fortune for my estate by being sold at vastly overestimated prices on ebay due to the word 'Eroica' being put in the title.

 

[Vantage]

Over my dead rotting corpse will any member of my family get my bike. As much as I love them, I come from a family of motoring idiots.
With any luck, my gravestone will read...
"Here lies Bill, whom if only for a short distance, proved that touring bikes can fly."
My bike will be with me. At the bottom of a very deep ravine.

 

[biggs682]

Funny you mention that. There was an ad in the Wellingborough Gazette, a woman advertising for someone to take her husbands bikes away while he was at work. I've got the phone number if you're interested - ring it and ask for Mrs Biggs.

Must be 2 Mr Biggs in the Boro then as i am not married to my delightful other half , i wonder what delights he has though ?

 

[MontyVeda]

Except in a more aero position!

er... no.

 

[raleighnut]

er... no.

Scared of being used as a bike stand.