Bregante - Memberagreed
It totally depends on which of my mates asked tbh. Whilst out injured this summer I had a call from one of my riding mates to tell me that a mutual friend was planning to ask if he could borrow my bike for a 3 day trip to Scotland. This lad keeps his own (fairly expensive) bike in absolutely shit order, does no maintenance and can't or wont pay for much needed spares or repairs. This was about three weeks before the planned trip. Sure enough a week before the trip, he rang me and asked if he could borrow the bike. I had to tell him no. It's my only mountain bike and I don't see why I should allow somebody else to potentially mistreat it. When I asked him why he didn't want to take his own, he said it was always "breaking down". Other friends I would trust implicitly to bring the bike back in first class condition.
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Lending and borrowing bikes
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Posted 7 months ago #
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I have to say I would agree with bregante as well - a mate who don't maintain his own bike would not get one of mine for a trip away for 3 days
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My and a non-biking mate went to do the Llanberis Path on Snowdon. I lent my "big" bike to him and borrowed my normal riding buddy's "big" bike for me to ride. Doubling the trust!
I trusted my good, newbie mate to be responsible, but I did give him a quite do's and don'ts to cover the basics.
Posted 7 months ago # -
I've always been pretty free with lending bikes and cars etc.
Good friend had his motorbike stolen after Christmas, and I offered him the loan of my BMW R1100S, as I was abroad and not using it. £40 to add him on the insurance and he rode it for 6 months before replacing his Triumph.
Lent plenty of bikes to people over the years too, generally whenever I bring a new bike out to India it is commandeered by a friend for a week or so to try out
Cheers, Rich
Posted 7 months ago # -
Hmm.. I'm not keen on lending or borrowing tbh.
As a former kayaker, this MTBing marlarky can be expensive. I don't earn a huge amount and riding is my main hobby. Mates have offered me bikes to ride in the past, usually when more travel was required than my old 3" fuel could provide. However my feeling was - if I can't afford / justify spending the money on buying a bigger bike then I can't afford / justify having to repair or replace someone elses should the worst happen.
The same goes in lending. If I know that the other person isn't happy spending money on buying or getting their own repaired then I am not happy to loan mine to them. However now i have two really nice bikes and if it is a mate who just wants a try out, or needs a bike and I know they would look after it, then I would be reasonably ok with it.
Like many of the others have said - it all depends on who and why...
Posted 7 months ago # -
I've lent bikes to people before, so that they'll ride with me (i.e. friends that would like to get into biking but can't afford a bike!).
Was very tempted to find someone to loan one or more of my bikes to while I'm not riding on a longer term basis than just a ride, but decided against it as I know my bikes are safe and loved in my garage
Posted 7 months ago # -
I lent my tandem out to a person from this forum about two years ago. I've not seen it or them since.
Never mind, lesson learnt.Posted 7 months ago # -
Really Monksie? That's a bit off. Wasn't somebody called Jeremy was it?
To the original question: I would lend any of my bikes out to most of my friends, but there are some people who just seem to break loads more stuff than everyone else.
And I wouldn't want to borrow somebody else's bike if I knew they were a bit anal about it or if it was brand new.
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