Into each life a little rain must fall
Oh well, I was woken up by the missus this morning shouting at me to get out of bed, babbling something about my bike getting stolen. So I jumped out of bed put on my best house clothes and crawled downstairs, to find out some scrote had managed to remove my hack bike from out of the back garden. Now this was a Specialized Hardrock Sport which I had built up over the past couple of months which was almost finished apart from needing a new back wheel because the pawls on the old hub were shot, as I found out the first time I sat on it to ride it. As in my previous post it wasn't anything special and was really purchased as a project to see how everything went together and how everything worked, the full bike cost me approx £150 to build and it was solely for the use of getting me to work and back as my off-road beast is for too good for tootling to and from work. Then a wry smile crossed my face as the missus asked why I wasn't that bothered about it being nicked. Little did she know that my little brain was working overtime as I had recently upped the insurance on my "bike" to £1000, and I was thinking, get a new bike prob Ali, part it out and then use the money to upgrade my existing one and still have some funds to build up the frame that I have just won. So I guess the bank balance is looking a bit rosier once I've stripped and sold all the bits off this new bike that will be arriving shortly and then I can spend the next couple of months starting the cycle all over again and this time I'll make sure that it's safely locked away with my off-road beast rather than locked to a drain pipe. It's just a bit of a kicker about it getting nicked after spending the time trawling the net looking for what you need at the right price and then someone comes along who takes a fancy to it and decides its his. It's a shame I couldn't have witnessed him trying to ride off on it as the chain slips everytime you try to pedal as I would have laughed my ass off.
Regards
Liam
Oh well, I was woken up by the missus this morning shouting at me to get out of bed, babbling something about my bike getting stolen. So I jumped out of bed put on my best house clothes and crawled downstairs, to find out some scrote had managed to remove my hack bike from out of the back garden. Now this was a Specialized Hardrock Sport which I had built up over the past couple of months which was almost finished apart from needing a new back wheel because the pawls on the old hub were shot, as I found out the first time I sat on it to ride it. As in my previous post it wasn't anything special and was really purchased as a project to see how everything went together and how everything worked, the full bike cost me approx £150 to build and it was solely for the use of getting me to work and back as my off-road beast is for too good for tootling to and from work. Then a wry smile crossed my face as the missus asked why I wasn't that bothered about it being nicked. Little did she know that my little brain was working overtime as I had recently upped the insurance on my "bike" to £1000, and I was thinking, get a new bike prob Ali, part it out and then use the money to upgrade my existing one and still have some funds to build up the frame that I have just won. So I guess the bank balance is looking a bit rosier once I've stripped and sold all the bits off this new bike that will be arriving shortly and then I can spend the next couple of months starting the cycle all over again and this time I'll make sure that it's safely locked away with my off-road beast rather than locked to a drain pipe. It's just a bit of a kicker about it getting nicked after spending the time trawling the net looking for what you need at the right price and then someone comes along who takes a fancy to it and decides its his. It's a shame I couldn't have witnessed him trying to ride off on it as the chain slips everytime you try to pedal as I would have laughed my ass off.
Regards
Liam
