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What kind of bike is it? A Vitus Sent(ier)
Bent Mech Hanger 10-1
Wrong Size 8-1
Wrong Colour 5-1
Dented top tube 3-1Left in a layby outside cleethorpes – 7-5 favourite
New keyboard required here too.
OP - seriously, I know what it is like when there's a cock-up and you know full well that the only person to blame is yourself - honestly, nothing makes me angrier.
But on the flipside, thanks so much for sharing - as the needle on your rage-o-meter has gone up, so has the amusement value - very much in the Basil Fawlty manner.
Have a bit of a word with yourself if you want to prevent stuff like this happening in the future. Not leaving everything to the last minute and doing a bit of planning is 'dull' but it sure makes life easier.
FWIW I'm going with frame lacquer on the BB threads which, in a rage, the OP will mangle trying to install the BB in a rush at about 2-30am in the morning...........
What frame is it?
And I’m going with steerer tube too short.
Frame will be fine...but, oh crap where did I put that crown race?!
I'm disappointed user crcceo hasn't posed up their reply yet.
Something's got to roll under the fridge.
Bent Mech Hanger 10-1
Wrong Size 8-1
Wrong Colour 5-1
Dented top tube 3-1Left in a layby outside cleethorpes – 7-5 favourite
Or the fantastic one where I transplanted kit from one bike to another reusing all the cables, gears fine in the stand but on a tight turn of the bars on one direction it changed down 2 gears 🙂
Can I make a late bid with 'rear axle missing'?
Based on my own recent experience I'm going for either :
- Wrong size hub or wrong hub adapters (had this)
- Theoretically fine headset but one that doesn't actually fit without noticeable play when it's installed.
I'm going with...
Frame arrives and everything fits. OP just puts them the wrong way round..
I'm going for missing barb and olive. Cables therefore catching on the undergrowth as he goes for first ride.
Theoretically fine headset but one that doesn’t actually fit without noticeable play when it’s installed.
Ooh I've had this too, where a frame manufacturers tolerances aren't quite as tightly controlled as the headset manufacturers...
Bez
Subscriber
Do you mean Asterix?
No. Asterix doesn’t sound anything like bollix.
Well that all clearly fell flat on its arse, I’ll get my menhir.
LOL! I got it, honest! Just used it as an excuse to make a feeble funny about Asterixes/Asterii. Got to admit I don't get the menhir reference though.
Got to admit I don’t get the menhir reference though.
Only dullmen appreciated that one.
My bet* is on something unnoticed when building up, but catastrophic on holiday day 1... a carelessly positioned limit screw which causes the chain to jump off and gouge the stay perhaps... or a sticker covering a crack on a poorly QC'd frame which snaps on the first drop-off...
* when I say bet, I mean hope
Bent Mech Hanger 10-1
Wrong Size 8-1
Wrong Colour 5-1
Dented top tube 3-1Left in a layby outside cleethorpes – 7-5 favourite
I very nearly spat tea there.
Can someone summarise please. In a haiku.
It's only 5 pages, don't be so lazy.
#endhaiku
OP ordered a frame
It shouldn't arrive, yet
He kicked off
#nearly_haiku
Can’t wait for tomorrow on this thread.
Will all the toys be neatly back in their pram or will it be full hissy fit?
Great stuff!
You lot really are a bunch of arses 😍
He/she is definitely growing on me, I’m rooting for the frame to be delivered on time, and all the parts to fit with no issues.
martinhutch
Member
Got to admit I don’t get the menhir reference though.
Only dullmen appreciated that one
Nice one Martin! Yes, I know they are stones, just didn't get the context.
You lot really are a bunch of arses 😍
Takes one to know one.
Front Door...
Throw Smash:
The Frame!
Can’t wait for tomorrow on this thread.
Will all the toys be neatly back in their pram or will it be full hissy fit?
Great stuff!
He's already promised to put up a pic of the completed bike. But of course he's going on hols so he might just forget. You can never trust milennials to do anything right.
So, is tomorrow the big day? I'm hoping for an early delivery as I don't want to glued to my phone all day awaiting updates.
Can someone summarise please. In a haiku.
Already done, just needed tweaking.
Wrong size and colour
Left in layby near cleethorpes
With dented top tube
Already done, just needed twerking
I'm not sure that would help all that much. 😉
Only dullmen appreciated that one.
*quiet nod of approval*
Can someone summarise please. In a haiku.
Dude orders something
Hasn’t arrived yet FAAACKSAKE!
But… it isn’t late
Been a good chuckle this one 🙂
Frame arrives on time
All parts fitted and working
Holiday cancelled
Can't wait for this thread to be picked up by click-baiters:
"He kicked off over a frame that wasn't late! But what happened next, nobody could have guessed!"
Hope he doesn't speak to the delivery driver in the same way he speaks to us or he might not get it at all.
Hope he doesn’t speak to the delivery driver in the same way he speaks to us or he might not get it at all.
Or he might do, but have to extricate himself from it first, before building it up with incompatible parts!
I heard the CEO personally hand-delivers all the frames.
Has it arrived yet? I have to head off to work soon and don't want to miss the big moment. The anticipation is killing me.
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I’m thinking the bike will arrive, all will be fine and dandy, it will get built with no issues and look great. Then it’ll get stolen.
If it get delivered today does that mean there will be a public apology To both crc and to STW fir being so rude ?
Has it not arrived yet?
Today is Thursday and delivery was promised today.
Some firms give rubbish service.
Think I'll complain on Facebook.
So will you be apologising for kicking off? Or do you genuinely think that escalating your non complaint up the hierarchy (well, it probably wasn’t, but it’s nice that you think it was) got you your bike in time?
Looks like it's been crushed.
Jolly good- now stop posting on here, get it built and get it dirty! Pics when it's built though please.
edit -is it a Scout? Is it?
When is holiday zero hour?
"**** the holiday, I've got a bike to build." 😆
Chill out Tom 👍
When is holiday zero hour?
Oh not till August, but it’s good to put fake deadlines in place to make sure you get what you want.
(I deal with people like the OP a LOT with work. They absolutely need something by x date and chase hourly, copying in anyone they think might be important, we get it done, then a month later, ‘I’m just setting up my xxxx’ or ‘can you get me a price on a few more options)
Edit, then the real ****s joke about it. Like the OP.
cyclelife
Chill out Tom
Anyone got a "oh the ironing" gif handy?
We need to go easy on the OP. He's got the box open now and can see the mess of tangled carbon/alu shards that Yodel have transformed it into.
#prayforcyclelife
My money is on the frame being the wrong size but he will never admit to making a mistake and it will be awesome and sic and in around 3 months time it will be in the classifieds as "new other"
Tracking indicates the location of the package.
Plus 6 pages and nobody has mentioned the frames head angle yet.
Anyone got a “oh the ironing” gif handy?
Standard internet*, innit. Schrödinger’s Outrage: behave like an outraged dick, then when anyone points out you’re behaving like an outraged dick simply accuse them of behaving like an outraged dick.
* internet, international politics, etc
I think I could watch that box on the conveyor belt for hours 😂
My money is on the frame being the wrong size but he will never admit to making a mistake and it will be awesome and sic and in around 3 months time it will be in the classifieds as “new other”
Nah, that kind of thing is normally done by stealth in the main forum.
I think I could watch that box on the conveyor belt for hours
Not much on at the depot today now you’ve got your most important order out?
Nah, that kind of thing is normally done by stealth in the main forum.
Wanna buy a Mini convertible?
Not much on at the depot today now you’ve got your most important order out?
Not at all, I’ve got a parcel here from Belfast hospital which means a busy few hours ahead trolling some hapless, disorganised hothead on kidneytransplantworld.com
I bought forks from Taiwan via eBay on Tuesday. Expected turnaround was 2 to 3 weeks. Courier has emailed to say they'll be here on Friday. In your face OP. I was going to buy from CRC but customer service guy was trying to sell me something completely wrong.
Actually I challenge the OP to a duel. You get your frame today so you've got a headstart. Let's see if I can get my forks fitted tomorrow before you finish the build.
Is it built yet?
Also no patio/fence comments yet?
I think imagined the delivery time to be tomorrow. Ignore my ramblings.
Is it built yet? What's taking so long?
Chill out Tom
That's pretty much what every stroppy millennial says when they've kicked off over nothing, made themselves look daft and then are asked, reasonably, to show some contrition by an adult.
But, so long as they get their own way in the end, then no lessons will be learned and we'll all be back here in a couple of months when the OP has done the exact same thing over something else.
But it will be just as much fun next time, so here's hoping.....
Hey lads, give the guy a break.
He's deep in conversation with the MD at CRC about the best way to open the box. No instructions were given and he doesn't know where to start. And his mummy won't be back from her Zumba class for another hour.
But it will be just as much fun next time, so here’s hoping…
Well now… you made me think, on that basis: "I bet this time isn't the first time".
So… click click, scroll, hmm let's try that one, click, ah yes, so three clicks away from here we have "Bought some spokes - no nipples!!" (top tip: double exclamation marks always a good indicator), in which it doesn't take long for the inevitable reply saying "the site says ‘nipples available separately’" to appear 😀
In fact the whole thread apparently took a now very familiar route 🙂
That spoke thread is amusing, good distraction from The Waiting. Why are we still waiting anyway, isn't the build finished yet?
People who prefix emails/threads with ‘urgent’ are best avoided also, IMO
Of course, the perfect (if somewhat unlikely) closure here would be if the bike can’t be built because the OP has just realised he’s got no spoke nipples.
The OP heads off on holiday bikeless and broken
Has anyone got OPs email? He obviously hasn't delivered yet.