Destroys bikes & all bike related objects with inexplicable regularity??...leaving you wondering just how they do it?
The perfect storm of on trail hooligan, bad line choice, sloppy maintenance and shear bad luck.
Everything he touches just seems to spontaneously combust,...
Is this a long term, incurable affliction?
Yeah, definitely: little/no maintenance and rides like a hooligan.
He's a mechanical engineer, which probably explains a lot 🙄
Yes, added to the fact he barely rides these days. So when we do, he tries to hoon off like old times, then blows up spectacularly.
We've all got "a friend" like that. Even your friends 😉
Yeah, definitely: little/no maintenance and rides like a hooligan.
He’s a mechanical engineer, which probably explains a lot 🙄
Oi! I'll have you know some of us maintain our bikes and I've only ever broken one.
Yes I do. And yesterday he started dismantling my brand new, amazing Buzzrack because he didn't like the way the clamp touched his frame and there were nuts and springs popping out all over the street.
I don't care what he does to his own stuff but he just crossed the line!
I have a son like that.
Exploded a back wheel on his new bike in less than a week, regularly rips Hollowtech II cranks off (so both cranks are in place but no longer at 180-degrees), bends handlebars etc
The bike shop often goes - "How, just how?".
The fact he's 16, 6ft 1, and 85kg of muscle with thighs like Chris Hoy explains most of the issues.
Yep. We were once out and his very tired chain snapped. I repaired it with a quick link (he had no tools of course) and we managed to get back ok. The following week his chain snapped. What bad luck, I thought, a new chain snapping. But of course it wasn't a new chain, he hadn't bothered replacing the old one which had more quicklinks than normal ones.
He also once turned up for a weekend away two spokes short in his back wheel. He hadn't noticed , he said.....
I just remembered, same mate as above...
We had organised a weekend riding on Dartmoor. He turns up (very late) at my house on Saturday morning - he was meant to have come down Friday night for an early start 😆
He then gets his bike out and asks where the nearest bike shop is as he needs brake pads, new spd cleats, and needs to rebuild his broken freewheel 😬
To get us going I just lent him a bike. Which he crashed on the first descent of the day and bent a brake lever.
Are you talking about my mate Daz? Legendary for this, yesterday went saddle worth, derailleur bent after 20 minutes then flat tire so 40 minute push back to car.Could have chucked inner tube in but both couldn't be arsed at that point.Hes turned up for group rides without, front wheel,axle multiple times.Top guy though 👍
I’m about to marry one. It’s not a shortage of maintenance though - more a case of loads of use and lots of air time. I have suggested that his lines lack finesse. Wheel destruction has been reduced since he started riding DH tyres with inserts - on all his mtbs.
This used to be me until I brought a better bikes, cleaned and maintained it and then made better line choices.
Also helped checking bike over and getting it ready BEFORE ride.
It was more fun though. I am a bit of a wuss now.
I couldn’t possibly comment…
The fact he’s 16, 6ft 1, and 85kg of muscle with thighs like Chris Hoy explains most of the issues.
Plenty of big people are easy on kit. It's all about finesse and not just ploughing into everything expecting the bike to deal with it.
Just think of them as a sacrificial anode - getting the rest of the group off the hook.
If you don't....its you!