My neighbour, who works now for various delivery companies, hired a bike for this purpose from Cycle Scotland bike hire. Odd choice I admit but that's what he did it turns out. It's a Trek hybrid which is a fairly decent bike. The other day his rear hanger snapped and all the expected damaged happened to the chain and rear derailleur.
Before I realised this was a hire bike and not his own I had managed to source a new rear hanger and I had a new rear derailleur so just needed new chain and gear cable - the existing cable was very frayed. On inspecting it I discovered neither of the brakes worked because the pads (and rims) were massively worn.
When he said it was a hire bike I asked why he didn't just take it back and get it fixed by them or get a replacement, and apparently he was told it was his responsibility to fix. I was pretty astonished - they claim that it must have been damage he caused himself. Either way the state of the brakes after 3 months use was definitely not reasonable for a hire bike.
Does anyone have any experience of this place? Seems very odd service to me.
Also - just wondering if anyone has a decent hybrid bike they might be looking to sell - for someone 6 foot 2. I'd like to to help him out - he's not had a great deal of luck with his hire bike.
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