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Dumped man sells his bike – and his girlfriend – on Gumtree

Bitter man selling bike he’s used twice – and offers to throw in his ex for those who ‘feel like being taken for a ride’

by Sarah Barth

Sat, Aug 16, 2014 17:14

A rather peeved victim of a dumping has taken to Gumtree to sell his bike – along with the girlfriend who he says ‘took him for a ride’.

The South African says he is selling his Specialized road bike which his ex – who was into cycling – encouraged him to buy.

He wrote: "Bought this bike because my girlfriend was into cycling.

"She dumped me and I hate cycling. I've used in twice since I bought it. Apparently it's quite a good bike.

"I'll throw in some size 9 specialized shoes for good measure along with the ex's phone number if you ever feel like being taken for a ride."

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Sarah Barth

After an unpromising start, having to be bribed by her parents to learn to ride without stabilisers, Sarah became rather keener on cycling in her university years, and was eventually persuaded to upgrade to proper road cycling by the prospect of a shiny red Italian bike, which she promptly destroyed by trapping a pair of knickers in the rear derailleur. Sarah writes about about cycling every weekend on road.cc.

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14 thoughts on “Dumped man sells his bike – and his girlfriend – on Gumtree”

Must be Mad

August 16, 2014 at 5:43 pm

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doesn’t like cycling?
Think
doesn’t like cycling?
Think she was right!
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Binky

August 16, 2014 at 5:49 pm

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Stupid man, saying he would
Stupid man, saying he would give his exs number!
I see she had a good reason to dump him. He should just get over it and move on
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CanAmSteve

August 16, 2014 at 6:26 pm

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Oh dear – size 9 shoes? I
Oh dear – size 9 shoes? I think I may have an idea where the problems lay…
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Argos74

August 16, 2014 at 7:09 pm

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Dude ain’t never gonna get

Dude ain’t never gonna get that lucky again his entire life.
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mtbmonkey

August 16, 2014 at 7:26 pm

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You brought a bike because
You brought a bike because the missus told you too even though you don’t like cycling. Grow some balls dude.
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fatbastard

August 16, 2014 at 8:05 pm

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If I don’t want her phone
If I don’t want her phone number can I have a 10% discount? :W
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antonio

August 16, 2014 at 8:14 pm

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Well Rory McIIroy dumped his
Well Rory McIIroy dumped his girl and never looked back, should have given the bike a second chance though.
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philbo

August 16, 2014 at 10:13 pm

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Nice bike, can u post a
Nice bike, can u post a picture of the ex and I may make u an offer
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Bob's Bikes

August 17, 2014 at 3:45 pm

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Seeing as he’s South african
Seeing as he’s South african perhaps she dumped him b4 she got shot! 👿
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- mzungu
  
  August 17, 2014 at 9:01 pm
  
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  FATBEGGARONABIKE wrote:Seeing
  
  Seeing as he’s South african perhaps she dumped him b4 she got shot! 👿
  
  — FATBEGGARONABIKE
  
  poor…
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  - monkeytrousers
    
    August 18, 2014 at 2:21 pm
    
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    mzungu wrote:FATBEGGARONABIKE
    
    Seeing as he’s South african perhaps she dumped him b4 she got shot! 👿
    
    — mzungu
    
    poor…
    
    — FATBEGGARONABIKE
    
    Funny though! =D>
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truffy

August 18, 2014 at 5:02 am

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Quote:Dumped man sells his

Dumped man sells his bike – and his girlfriend – on Gumtree

He’s not really [I]selling[/I] his (ex-)girlfriend, though, is he? You don’t work for the Daily Mail by any chance?
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rookybiker

August 18, 2014 at 8:58 am

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It’s the silly season, let’s
It’s the silly season, let’s not take the ‘news’ seriously 😉
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truffy

August 18, 2014 at 9:19 am

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Fair point, but the headline
Fair point, but the headline is misleading. Think of all the poor, sad buggers that have signed up to Gumtree only to find that they couldn’t buy his ex-girlfriend! #o
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mark1a 45 minutes ago

@ktache thanks very much, you have a good memory, the thread was about a crowdsourced site to give details of cars that would fit road bikes without a rack outside. I’ll post the links separately as they’ll be stuck in moderation. I’ve just got back from a brilliant weekend cycling in France, in Suisse Normande.

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Geoff H 2 hours ago

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chrisonabike 3 hours ago

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ktache 4 hours ago

There was a bit in the forum a while back, someone was attempting to create a web based thing. Forum went a bit sour with the upgrade, but I do remember mark1a's fine travelling tool kit...

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chrisonabike 4 hours ago

Clearly it's hard not to do so - indeed you seem to have separated "us that ride bicycles" from others already... Ultimately concentrations of people - that is, urban spaces - work best when there is indeed a (physical) separation between quite different modes of transport *. Trains, motor vehicles, "cycles" and pedestrians. And bigger, heavier vehicles (driven by the same indifferent drivers) just make things more dangerous / put pressure on authorities to allocate even more space for their use etc. * Or as eg. the Dutch sustainable safety principle has it - homogeneity of speed / mass. And "combine where possible, separate where necessary". Note that means it *can* be sensible to share space but only where speeds / volumes of the more dangerous mode(s) are suitably controlled. Of course - "different roads for different modes" "doesn't work" if we start from the assumption that motoring is *and will/must be* the predominant mode, so that should get the existing direct routes and everything else must then be designed around it...

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Dadams7378 4 hours ago

Well, I can only say I hope Berk have improved their QC. I’ve had numerous (due to the fact that if you break one, Berk will simply send you a new saddle, no questions asked), and only one hasn’t broken. For info, I’m under 70 kilos, so well within the weight limit. You can’t argue with the customer service though - as I say, it’s a no questions asked replacement.

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ktache 4 hours ago

Bits of a car are made to deform too, absorbing energy and increasing impact time, ain't so for a bus...

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chrisonabike 4 hours ago

So much to unpack here. Are you perhaps another example of the armed cyclist? And if so, is the reaction because you rode in with big iron on your hip? (I know, it's the Arizona ranger... 😉)

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