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Take them out?
I’m thinking dinner and a movie.
FFS. This thread is certainly handy for bringing out the homophobes. Can you give it a rest?
FFS. This thread is certainly handy for bringing out the homophobes. Can you give it a rest?
this times a million. (I can't help but think that mention of folks sexuality was part of a plan to try and get the thread deleted, lets not rise to it (as there is no place for it) and keep on topic, eh?)
keep on topic, eh?)
So, uh, how about them Sick Bikes, hey?
I can see piss takers but not homophobes.
Yes.
I must admit, I didn’t think my little prod would lead to quarter of a page with lots of homophobic nudge-nudge going on. That’s ****ing shit, people. Pack it in.
Joe made himself look very daft, and deserved some ridicule for that and for that alone (well, and for sticking up for a company that look like they are to all intents fraudulent). But nothing should be taken as a green light to go after someone because of their sexuality. There is a line and it dovetails neatly with rule number one.
I tried to reply to your PM, but something is on the blink. Seeing as how I am not someone who posts one thing publicly and another privately, I might as well post it here:
I agree partly. Absolutely no way should any be ‘got after’ on the basis of sexuality or race etc. ‘Ruin life’ is a bit strong, and I doubt a STW ban is going to ruin anyone’s life.
Getting a ribbing for doing and saying things that make you look daft is, as far as I am concerned, fair enough. Judge people by their actions. Hopefully you will have the self awareness to read back some of your stuff on here, and realise you were likely to get ribbed.
For what it is worth, I am not homophobic. Many years ago, I had a gay housemate and I have several work colleagues and more than one friend who is gay. They are taken at face value, just like anyone else. I also know a few gay people who I don’t get along with, but that is a personality/actions thing. Sexuality just isn’t an issue for me.
Hope that clears things up.
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I can see piss takers but not homophobes.
This. The only homophobic comment i'm aware of was the one that was deleted
The latest one has gone now too.
The reference to the Little Britain sketch is ‘edgy’, I would say.....
Not really, especially if you remember who did the sketch and what inspired it. In general this has to be one of the best forums I've ever seen for people genuinely not caring what way you happen to go
They're taking the piss, using the targets sexuality as a point of humour. Given a poster is here saying that people are making homophobic comments, do you really think that 'joke' is helpful?
Carrying on this line of conversation isn't helping anything, drop it, move on. Else it will only cause the thread to be closed, which may or may not have been some posters objective all along.
I abhor any kind of prejudice.
I also hate rip off merchants and love a good flounce . Not had one of those in ages. 🙂
They’re taking the piss, using the targets sexuality as a point of humour.
Are you talking about Little Britain or the posters on here?
Anybody received a refund yet?
#backontrackbaby
Has there actually been any new information at all since the thread got going again?
Carrying on this line of conversation isn’t helping anything, drop it, move on. Else it will only cause the thread to be closed, which may or may not have been some posters objective all along.
This.
The thread is about Sick Bikes taking people’s money and not delivering the goods.
That is not on, and they deserve a shellacking.
Has there actually been any new information at all since the thread got going again?
yes and no.
No in that there is no new output.
Yes in that sick haven't posted on their IG for 2 weeks + now (compared with multiple daily posts), and aren't deleting folk highlighting what is going on, which may well be a development.
which may well be a development.
Unfortunately I suspect not a good one indicating they have given up entirely on this bike thing. Shame really could have done with another decent clothing company rather than a badly performing bike company.
Well after telling me monday I could have a refund and being told daily that it was passed on to Tim/Jordan/The other one who's name I cant remember/Beelzebub/Insert imaginary person here they stopped responding friday. Now I've had shit day today so my tolerance for arseholes like Sick and their little entourage is at an all time low.
I'm gonna leave it until after the weekend as I have more pressing things (a friends personal crisis takes precedent here) but tuesday will be deadline day and i'll open the paypal dispute.
Lets see if the ****less knobs can sort it out then.
Best of luck, hope you get your money back and that you don’t have to go through the wringer too much.
Well done for putting this on the back burner whilst you sort out more important stuff, you sound for all the world like a perfectly reasonable and normal person who is just getting really bloody annoyed with something that is really bloody annoying!
All they’ve got to do is hold their hands up and give you the money back, after all. If they’ve already spent the money on something else and can’t, then they’re going to be in the shit. This stuff is not complicated…
Cheers Dannyh, that's my thoughts, theres worse things happening all around so I will fight for it but I'm not gonna let it take over (unlike GG who seems a little obsessive considering hes had his frame)
considering hes had his frame
If I remember correctly (I’m not reading the whole of that pink bike thread to check) he, like longmover, received a frame but not the frame he ordered.
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He ordered a ti frame in the jet fuel colour, it came without jet fuel and the wrong frame name etched into it. He also ordered some of the mythical snappy ti bars. But it drove him over the edge and he went a bit apocalypse now over it.
Has Joe flounced yet?
Well this is an interesting little read.
I can't help but see the funny side of the fact that I personally know someone with a Sick frame over here in BC, yet my Gnarpoon T Shirt is ironically lost in the post 🙂
(I know it was sent and no issues with the sender, mainly just bummed as the T shirt is pretty hilarious)
I'll have worn mine out by the time yours arrives 😉
Oddly though, in a bike town, no one's questioned it yet...
I've waited months for packages to arrive royal mail to canadapost before now.. whereas I'll get packages out of Europe in days..frustrating as heck though!
Yeah it's weird and a total lottery as to what will turn up and when! Maybe it'll be my retirement gift to myself 🙂
Well:
Full story to come soon.
Don't believe 100% of everything you have read.
Importantly everyone will be seen to, no-one will be left out. Any problems, questions, refunds, orders, crowdfund projects or even hellos will be answered, but it will take a short while to get to everyone as we will ensure everyone is happy.
We also have a big surprise for everyone coming soon along with a huge thank you for your patience. All of you.
Don’t believe 100% of everything you have read.
Should that not be at the end of the paragraph.
HOT NEW ACTION - fresh post over on IG -
sickbicycles
AND HERE TO STAY.
Full story to come soon.
Don't believe 100% of everything you have read.
Importantly everyone will be seen to, no-one will be left out. Any problems, questions, refunds, orders, crowdfund projects or even hellos will be answered, but it will take a short while to get to everyone as we will ensure everyone is happy.We also have a big surprise for everyone coming soon along with a huge thank you for your patience. All of you.
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Ha! Late by the time I was waiting for phone signal on the train 😅 It really is hot news
So they've found an investor to prop up the pyramid for a bit?
I'm going with a free tee-shirt as the the big surprise.
Be interesting to read the story.
Hannah will have it as a STW exclusive in 5...4...3...2...
is that business speak for "please dont hit paypal dispute yet , we are so close to the deadline for you to not be able to launch a dispute ?"
trust is easily given , Quickly thrown away and takes a bloody long time to regain once lost.
"the surprise is we're in Bermuda and so is your money!"
The fact that they are STILL playing the game with ‘surprises’ rather than growing up and being honest and straight should be terrifying to anyone who has given them money.
Teasers and blocked comments are not what a responsible company in such a awful situation should be doing.
It's a bit like an abusive relationship now.
"Please come back, I won't beat you this time. Honest"
SURPRISE! it was all a dream
Did the buyers of frames ever receive their 'special owners t-shirt'?
Lister beat me too it. I was going to make exactly the same comment. That's no way to start to rebuild the trust of a community you've managed to alienate. How many people here or on PB think that Sick! are a reliable company now? As far as I can make out they've promised more than once that they've got the dull business side of things sorted with proper systems and F/T employees, shipping, delivery schedules, warehousing, QC, all that dull shit that they don't (or can't) seem to bother with. The time for "Guess what, tune in later for exciting news" has long gone...
The weird thing is, they clearly have products that sell, folk seem to really like the Tees, and given the amount of folk looking for refunds (or just info on where their frames are) there seems to be a market for those as well. If at the time they'd held their hands up and admitted they were swamped, I think people would've given them some slack.
I genuinely don't wish them ill, and hope that ultimately they succeed in supplying people the bikes they clearly want. If I were them, I'd just be quietly getting on with that rather than banging the Insta drum
I wish them ill... I hope the day after everyone gets their bikes/frames the company goes completely belly up and never darkens the internet again.
Absolutel disgrace.
+1 another we’ve heard all this “It’s sorted” BS.....I don’t believe a word of it.
The MTB press needs to get its act together & call them on it. Yes, I know STW are composing an article but it’s taking its time to show its face....
While most of us would throw in the towel if we'd messed up that badly, part of me enjoys the entertainment of them keeping trying.
At least their latest posting has given this thread fresh impetus. Otherwise it'd just be tomhoward bickering with whoever else wandered in.
Its like a soap opera! What I don't get is why has no one sued them via small claims yet.
At least their latest posting has given this thread fresh impetus.
So much more than that. I can actually see a new direction and I'm sure it'll all get sorted. I mean, the scousers turned 3-0 around last night so why can't Suckbikes. Oh cos they're a ****ing omnishambles. There surely can't be a person left on the planet who'd buy into their promises.
What I don’t get is why has no one sued them via small claims yet.
Because it's unlikely they have any tangible assets?
The most any journo will do is to give them yet another opportunity to say that they are sorting stuff and really really sorry honest guv. I very much doubt there'll be a "haven't we heard all of this before...", Probably a nice picture of a s****y warehouse with one frame and a zillion empty boxes, some more hipster coffee...
What Sick need to do is stop the bull, sort out every single refund and deliver on existing orders make sure these take priority over any new products/socks etc. Give the competition winner his frame, reply to emails in a timely manner, oh and maybe stop being dickheads on the internet.
I don't know, its not like they are going to lose any advertising revenue from Sick now is it?
You may be surprised.
We also have a big surprise for everyone coming soon along with a huge thank you for your patience. All of you.
What was it about their bikes that drew customers to them 'name/branding' / give a start up a leg up?
If we're doing songs for sick.
they're doing a bit of housekeeping on old insta posts now too and removing any negative comments.
they’re doing a bit of housekeeping on old insta posts now too and removing any negative comments.
Personally I would spend the time reply to the backlog of emails but what do I know.
they’re doing a bit of housekeeping on old insta posts now too and removing any negative comments.
Clearly still doing things in the wrong order - do that while no one is watching. Or do a Miley Cyrus & delete it all & start again...
If only there was some way to access some of their old posts:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/146501625@N06/3J5w86
“We’re back” where the **** where they?
“Comments on this post have been limited” on all of their old posts, after removing the negative ones of course.
I’ve waited months for packages to arrive royal mail to canadapost before now.. whereas I’ll get packages out of Europe in days..frustrating as heck though!
Yeah it’s weird and a total lottery as to what will turn up and when! Maybe it’ll be my retirement gift to myself 🙂
Oh yeah, Canada Post are horrendous for that. I complained to my postie that 4 months' worth of a monthly mag subscription, and about 3 weeks of a weekly magazine, had not been delivered. For the next 6 days they delivered nothing but magazines, some issues of which they'd obviously been sat on for more than 3 months.
Tbh, Sick should use that as an excuse, even for those bikes not being sent to Canada...
Surprise! UBYK have bought SICK bikes for our outstanding customer service.
I know that I'm a bit late to this conversation, but, I ordered a Ruby Wulf frame with the understanding that it was going to ship in 2 weeks.....that was March 1. I also ordered a t-shirt that, to my surprise, arrived here in California less than a week later. When I was sent the notification of the shipment, I mistakenly thought it was the frame. I was disappointed and puzzled. I thought they would just throw it in the frame box when they shipped that, not spend the money to expedite a t-shirt from the UK to CA.....weird. I followed up with them and was initially told that it would be two weeks. Subsequent emails then claimed that they had run into a problem. The frames had been made, but they were, for reasons they never explained, unable to bring them ashore and were "sorting it out and would send everyone an update soon".
Weeks continued to pass and two things happened. I noticed that they had removed the Wulf series frames completely from the website, and I came across this blog while looking for Wulf geometry.
I decided to push them a bit more as by this point we are well over a month past the 3/16 ship date they promised me. Since they still couldn't give me a ship date, I canceled and requested a full refund.
I was told by James that all refunds were authorized by their directors and that he would request my refund immediately. That was 3 weeks ago and still nothing.
I promised Sick Bicycles that if I didn't receive my refund within a few days that I would have a new hobby and that my new hobby would be to tell as many people as I could about their bullshit little scam. I also told them that I would continue to post on message boards and contact as many magazines in the US and Europe as I can. This posting is my first effort towards mastering my new hobby. Scumbag, rip-off, peice of shit little bitches. Seriously.....**** those guys.
Having looked at their website i note there is no business address...my number 1 rule for not buying something
This thread just keeps on giving. How can they continue to get away with this? I feel like I’m owed a frame at this point just for reading this.
Having looked at their website i note there is no business address…my number 1 rule for not buying something
and also illegal under UK law.
and also illegal under UK law.
Representing the UK scene though.
Nice to see them back on IG, but in reality, nothing has changed. It’s just another ‘everything will be fine’ message like the half dozen before it. It’s almost like they think sending these messages out solves the problems. Still no action...
@reluctant0neighbor0industries. Can we interest you in a new t-shirt?
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/gnarpoon-t-shirts/
PSA. There are still frames available for sale & socks are 3 for 2!
"fighting to onshore their delivery" is my fave takeaway from their twitter.
fighting to onshore their delivery
Stuck in customs as someone hadn't played the bills?
The FAQ section of their website is my favourite....first question is....where is my stuff? Ha ha
Also interesting that every T-shirt sold they provide a meal for a kid and plant a tree. Maybe that’s where they have been lately? I mean I see loads of Sick T-shirts. So obviously they got loads of kids to feed and trees to bury! Right?
It’s like 1984 all over again innit..
wow, i never realised this was a thing
"For every shirt we sell in 2018 we plant a tree and provide 1 meal for a child. We don't shout about it because its just something we do. We support the Eden Reforestation Project and Marys Meals. As such we do not sponsor, promote or endorse any other charity. "
i know the folk at marys meals, maybe i'll ask if it's legit
socks are 3 for 2
Who on earth wants three socks?
It's basic errors of judgement like that that make me think they're going to have problems running a business in the future.
I'm stunned no-one is standing outside their HQ (assuming people know where it is) and screaming for their frames.
i know the folk at marys meals, maybe i’ll ask if it’s legit
Five quid says it's just that they're getting through more popcorn.
well i've asked
i know the folk at marys meals, maybe i’ll ask if it’s legit
Please do- that would be the most (g)narsasitic act to date I think.
It was one of the nice touches that added to my interest early on and lead to a few orders.
sounds like a real ponzi scheme to me
Well, they don't give to the Eden Reforestation Project (at least not formally).
They aren't listed on any of their partnerhsip pages;
> Forest Partners - $100,000 +
> Grove Partners - $50,000 - $99,999
> Sapling Partners - $10,000-$49,999
> Seedling Partners - $5,000-$9,999
> Seed Partners - $250-$4,999