Bought bike from charity shop

Deastons

If I buy something from a charity shop, my main reason is to help the charity.

The goods are donated to them and are clearly second-hand. I can't imagine buying something from a charity shop and then attempting to return it for a refund/exchange.

Do the right thing and just go and buy a chain, rather than try to take the money from a good cause. It's £4 for heaven's sake.

whitegoods_engineer

Seriously? You went back to a charity shop expecting the staff to have a fully equipped workshop in the back to repair a faulty bike?

The world has gone mad!

photome

Deastons wrote: »

If I buy something from a charity shop, my main reason is to help the charity.

The goods are donated to them and are clearly second-hand. I can't imagine buying something from a charity shop and then attempting to return it for a refund/exchange.

Do the right thing and just go and buy a chain, rather than try to take the money from a good cause. It's £4 for heaven's sake.

whitegoods_engineer wrote: »

Seriously? You went back to a charity shop expecting the staff to have a fully equipped workshop in the back to repair a faulty bike?

The world has gone mad!

Couldn’t agree more

lincroft1710

Keep_pedalling wrote: »

Chains like tyres are consumables. My bikes get through 2 chains a year, a set of tyres will be changed approx once every three years. If a chain breaks but still has plenty of ware left in it you don’t even need to change it, simply rejoin the change using a spare link if required.

How things have changed! Decades ago, chain would last forever, rear tyres about a year, front 2/3 years