Unhappy Sick Bicycles Customers. BEWARE!

skimmed that roadbikereview forum post.

rollercoaster.

6 years to get a court judgment then the implication that the frame builder faked their own death to avoid paying up.

Press release or not stw and pinkbike should probably do some editorial and ask them where people’s bikes are.

That’s not the sort of journalism you see from the Bicycle Media.

You’d think they’d at least have some awareness of what’s going on though, and not make themselves party to it?

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Alex Simon… my frame? What the **** are you on about????
This ilustrates my point exactly! Pointless jumping to (wrong) conclusions.

You’re right. Please accept my apologies. I remember you posting a link to a frame for sale, but now I see that you said it wasn’t yours. Again – sorry.

I will happily kick them whilst they are down. What really gets me is all the people waiting for frames whilst they doing new drops, bringing out new models and spouting their fighty attitude on Instagram yet when they are confronted about their absolutely awful service they block people. They dish it out but can’t take it, I for one would love for them to actually try to justify their actions in a setting where they can’t just delete negative voices or block people.

“10 grand …guitars”

Were you thinking it was 10k from one purchaser? It wasn’t, it was lots of amounts of a few hundred odd to maybe 1k from lots of bassists. It ran on for years, he kept ‘selling’ to new people.

Must be a titanium thing. Some of these guys have been waiting over a decade…..

https://forums.mtbr.com/29er-bikes/matt-chester-714775.html

Using PayPal express and Stripe for Payments, Transfer and Refunds is not cutting it. We keep getting *random* (wink wink nudge nudge) holds from PayPal on funds.

So, paypal and stripe have cancelled Sicks merchant accounts then?

Were you thinking it was 10k from one purchaser?

No I actually though 10 grand from lots of people each, I am about as musically talented as a big brush so don’t follow those circles but I do follow a guy who machines guitars out of solid ally so figured 10k a pop might be plausable.

Thread still going strong!
Things turn from “unhappy” to “very unhappy” right now.
Trash grade? Sick is an T-shirt maker and nothing more?

So, paypal and stripe have cancelled Sicks merchant accounts then?

Or sick don’t want them awarding refunds without their say so?

It’s a bit like when the dodgy takeaway that no one really uses puts a sign in the window saying “Sorry, we’ve got a problem with our card machine. Cash only”

The only problem is that their cash flow is so stuffed, they can’t pay the card fees.

Not that such a thing is happening to the most happening bike brand on the UK scene…

They dish it out but can’t take it, I for one would love for them to actually try to justify their actions in a setting where they can’t just delete negative voices or block people.

This! As a owner of a sick frame this is the reason I wouldn’t buy another one.

For context 2 of my friends also have sick frame, 2 of the 3 of us are happy with the frames we purchased but the way they treated/communicated with the 3rd* is dogshite.

*he hasn’t posted his story/saga on STW.

Still kicking off over on PinkBike forums

Was just doing analysis on Socialblade for something unrelated which reminded me of Sick, so i had a quick look at their profile.

Turns out they’ve gained a bit a bit of traction recently and continuing their substantial growth. All publicity is good publicity, right? Meanwhile the Pinbike saga continues

@cokie this is great to see.
I’d just like to say well done to the Singletrack and Pinkbike trolls on boosting Sick’s reputation.

@cokie this is great to see.
I’d just like to say well done to the Singletrack and Pinkbike trolls on boosting Sick’s reputation.

It’s a bit like going to see a Jackass movie, not laughing with them, laughing at them.

@cokie this is great to see.
I’d just like to say well done to the Singletrack and Pinkbike trolls on boosting Sick’s reputation.

Firstly, as number one fanboi, congratulations on digging up an old post.

And given by the hammering they have been getting on Pinkbike, when their reputation is at gutter level, I guess the only way is up. If only success in life was measured as a number of followers huh? Mind you, with the latest bits on on there dragged up from Dumber & Dumber’s past, we can assume most of the IG followers are bought, or bots. In other words, a sham, like the hundreds, and hundreds of frames they have sold already, and the hundreds awaiting delivery.

Have they already gone pop now anyway? There has been radio silence for weeks. Given their total narcissistic desires, that’s literally a lifetime for them.

Or maybe Dim has got lost in the massive warehouse of frames they have.

I heard UBYK are talking over Sick?😉

That’ll improve matters no end.😆

I had noticed that their insta hasn’t dropped a banger in over 2 weeks now (and a couple of comments on the last post are good uns)

What happened to the Singletrack article that Hannah was supposedly writing on Sick? I don’t buy the mag so it may have been published in there.

He did a live video stream the other week. But couldn’t be bothered to sit and listen and he didn’t save it afterwards. Their latest post has a comment at the top slagging them off which hasn’t been deleted. Doesn’t look too healthy for sick

@butterbean
I love it how you call me “No. 1 Fanboi” because I own 1 of their bikes. So I take it because I also own a Knolly, a Chromag, a Santa Cruz and a Cinelli then that makes me a fanboi’s of all these brands.

GROW THE **** UP YOU SNIVELLING TROLL

Having read the whole thread & from what i’ve seen/heard from other sources i’m surprised anyone would associate themselves with the company or defend them in any way, what’s the deal Joe?

Tattoo, check shirt, cap. Far too cool for Singletrack Joe.

@simonloco. I’ve bought one bike off them. Ever since then I have been trolled and received loads of homophobic abuse. All because I own one of their bikes.

I’ll just leave this here.

@butterbean. Good to see you can use Instagram buddy. The shot was taken a year or so ago when I did some voluntary work for Sick at some shows. Nothing ever happened past that and I don’t even work in that industry anymore. As there’s a lot more money to be made in car sales.

He must think highly of them to look after their customers for them after just buying one bike. Kudos.

ROFL!

And good to see that he’s moved into a more trustworthy line of work.

I did some voluntary work for Sick at some shows

And yet on the Instagram blurb they seem to be mapping out some kind of job progression – bit presumptive for voluntary work, no?

Much as I can see the conflict of interest here and think it’s fair to call it out… I’d warn this (year old insta posts) is very much starting to look like the sort of thing that had the other thread closed folks so, before it gets that far, it might be wise to back off Joe, especially if as he says, there has been homophobic bullying too (don’t recall it personally and I’m not about to go looking).

[not a stealth mod but can see the way this is going]

Wonder which bike he bought – the prototype he was showing off in this article?

https://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/first-look-sick-bicycle-co-titanium-dfa-and-a-look-at-the-future/

Or the hardtail here?

https://www.instagram.com/sickbicycles/p/Bpcah1Pgp1z/?hl=af

my god, rereading that article a year later…

sick-o-fan-tic.

They really don’t look too good do they?
I’ve been researching a piece on crowdfunding and the editor has been rising his eyes at them.

Netflix should do a series based around this. It could include the gnarpoon T-shirt’s