Well, having bought a bike to save me some money on parking and fuel I find myself in the red after the first day. That’s right, it has cost me more money to have my bike. Why?
This morning while peddling furiously to uni I turned right, but my bike didn’t. It seems that it wasn’t quite assembled properly and I lost all steering control. Fortunately both I and the bike remain unharmed. (Unlike some people (you know who you are) I didn’t run int a pole or railing)
So, you might be thinking, why didn’t you just fix it. Well, I was silly and didn’t have a toolkit with me. So I pushed the bike back up the hill to head home. A task which was increasingly difficult as the bike had other plans. Fortunately a Good Samaritan passed by and helped get it working so it wouldn’t be hard to push. Of course, by the time I got home it was too late to ride again or even walk into the city (to uni) as I usually do. So I drove to my normal car park (cost, $4.80) and caught a bus across to the city (cost, $2.10).
So after one day it has cost me $2.10 more than I would normally pay. It has also flared up the pain from when I went horse riding two years ago (Photos would be inappropriate).
Bummer! When I took the bike I was going to buy for a test ride I almost stacked it — I had never ridden a road bike or one that locks your feet in *oops*.
That’s really not good that it wasn’t assembled properly! Perhaps you should sue them (sorry, I have been watching too much shatner ;-), actually then you would sue them and try to chat up the opposing council).
Definitally invest in a toolkit and a spare tube (you dont’ want to be patching stuff if you are late). An odometre is also fun to have, you can see how many k’s you rack up (I am currently on 1660kms :))
Will.
And get some Bar-Ends for those hills you speak of when you can actually ride again.
Spiff