Should I ask for compensation for child's injuries?.

Dave101t

a store which builds bikes all day every day, made a fault that cannot be proven or......silly girl cant ride?

gordikin

Flyboy152 wrote: »

That was a presumption, because they had built the bicycle and told the OP no more adjustment would be necessary.

Again where????

bris

Flyboy152 wrote: »

That was a presumption, because they had built the bicycle and told the OP no more adjustment would be necessary.

C'mon Flyboy even you must know you are flogging a dead horse on this one.
The kid crashed her bike twice. If you crashed your car would you just jump back in and drive it, or would you get a suitable person to check it over to make sure it was safe?

garethgas

Flyboy152 wrote: »

It would be a fifty/fifty call. It certainly would raise the arguments of cause and effect; did the damage cause the accident, or was the damage caused by the accident. But it does seem very foolish to have allowed the child to ride the bike again, if the OP is attempting to claim negligence on the part of the seller.

Good Lord, what a load of tosh! Have you ever fallen off a bike?
I remember having to straighten my handlebars sometimes several times a day! It takes seconds to do and is certainly well within the capabilities of an 11 yr old.
As to another post of yours regarding seat adjustment, lots of bikes use levers to adjust the seat height, besides, seat height is adjusted before you ride not during/after. Children don't grow THAT quickly!
I find it rather odd that you try and make your posts sound (unconvincingly) like you have some knowledge on the subject when you clearly don't.
If I don't know something, I don't offer advice to others.
No offence intended. :beer:

texranger

Flyboy152 wrote: »

That was a presumption, because they had built the bicycle and told the OP no more adjustment would be necessary.

so you get a bike when your child is 10 but for some very strange reason children grow and because the bike shop stated "no more adjustment would be necessary" you dont so any, well like any bike as your child grows (now 11 and several inches taller) it will become necessary to make adjustments to the saddle/handlebar height.

George_Michael

I recently bought a bike for my 11 year old daughter from JJB Sports shop and within two weeks my daughter has had two serious falls off it,

So what inspections, checks or adjustments did you make after the first fall?
After all, if it was as you stated "serious", surely you didn't just let your daughter jump on it again without making sure it was safe for her to do so.

Flyboy152

bris wrote: »

C'mon Flyboy even you must know you are flogging a dead horse on this one.
The kid crashed her bike twice. If you crashed your car would you just jump back in and drive it, or would you get a suitable person to check it over to make sure it was safe?

Read post #44

Flyboy152

garethgas wrote: »

Good Lord, what a load of tosh! Have you ever fallen off a bike?
I remember having to straighten my handlebars sometimes several times a day! It takes seconds to do and is certainly well within the capabilities of an 11 yr old.
As to another post of yours regarding seat adjustment, lots of bikes use levers to adjust the seat height, besides, seat height is adjusted before you ride not during/after. Children don't grow THAT quickly!
I find it rather odd that you try and make your posts sound (unconvincingly) like you have some knowledge on the subject when you clearly don't.
If I don't know something, I don't offer advice to others.
No offence intended. :beer:

I am not sure you actually read the posts you are quoting. I know several parents who haven't a clue about adjusting a bicycle for a child and have asked me to help. Some of those parents haven't been on a bicycle since they were eleven years old themselves, or have never been on a bicycle at all.

Flyboy152

texranger wrote: »

so you get a bike when your child is 10 but for some very strange reason children grow and because the bike shop stated "no more adjustment would be necessary" you dont so any, well like any bike as your child grows (now 11 and several inches taller) it will become necessary to make adjustments to the saddle/handlebar height.

This was a new bicycle that the OP purchased, not one her daughter had grown out of. The OP seems to have very little knowledge or skills when it comes to owning, using and maintaining a bicycle; that is not her fault. However, if the shop, the "experts," have told her that it needs no more adjustments, why should she disbelive them? If she were to not trust them, why ask the question in the first place?

dibuzz

We bought my youngest a bike from JJB for Christmas when he was 6 and I got it out of the car, wheeled it to the neighbour who was hiding it for me and tried to lift it into the house but the handle bars came off in my hand.
I wasn't very impressed but got a spanner and tightened it up myself. I wouldn't have dreamed of just giving it to him without checking it over myself first anyway, is safety is my responsibility not JJB's