Recenty grew tired of my old bike, so I bought a quite nice second hand bike, that I got to ride about 500 meters before number 1 son wanted a go and promptly claimed my bike as his.

So back to the bike adverts and my wife is looking over my shoulder and sees a bike she likes, I put my phone down walked out of house, crossed the road and dunno took maybe 20 steps? hard left into the trees and picked up the exact bike wife saw in the advert…

I mean it’s blue instead of purple, but otherwise the exact model. Bored teens had been cutting it up and jumping on the wheels, but the bones seemed ok, so I slapped on some 29 inch wheels that I also found in the same spot, a worn 700c tyre (from the bike that started all this) was shoved on the front (I don’t think it was supposed to fit) and the rear 2.25 inch keep air in so that was used, it didn’t fit, but I didn’t have another option, so 20 minutes of shaving with a pliers and at the cost of a massive blister it turns freely! Seat from a kids 16incher, hit the deraliuer (sp) with a spanner until it was mostly straight an off we rolled :)

I’ll buy a set of new 2.1" tyres (wife likes the chunky look) later on.

So everyone has a new bike except me :(