Funny this should come up...

I was chatting with the my friend at the local bike shop yesterday and he told me he was not careful enough with a bike with a plastic chainguard on the crank and the guard broke. Now I know for a fact that these plastic chainguards are extremely cheaply made and are very prone to breaking. But my friend broke it and he is replacing it at his cost.

Like tsl said - if you break it, you bought it. If the shop doesn't believe that maybe you should go in one day with your steel-toed boots and 'test' the impact resistance of the plastic parts on bikes on their sales floor. If they break... meh... they are prone to breaking and you certainly can't be held responsible.


*I don't really think this is a good idea, but I think is an interesting perspective to point out to them if they are having trouble seeing. Windows are also prone to breaking when you throw rocks at them... it's an industry wide problem!