Just get your mum to pay for your repairs, if you were given enough money to get the bike built for you with carbon forks, then I imagine she can afford a pair of forks and a new front wheel for you. You can always pay someone else to do the repairs too.
I don't know what impression you have of me. She won't pay for the repairs you silly sausage :P . I wasn't given any money to build the bike up, I paid for it all (bar the forks) myself, and I got the money from working. The forks were a mega awesome gift from a friend of mine. There is no way I would be able to afford new ones any time soon.
Why would I pay someone else to do the repairs? I can tell you I would enjoy fixing my bike a lot more than getting someone else to do it. Unfortunately I can't fix the forks myself, I think the crack goes straight through the shoulder of the fork, in which case I doubt it can be fixed.
You're giving out about the "nodder" in the fluoro, yet despite his visibility you still managed to crash into him. He was on your right hand side at the junction too so you should have been looking. In that situation it sounds like you were more in the wrong.
He crashed into me, and I'm sorry but in case you haven't noticed light coming of florescent clothing can't penetrate through wooden fences.
It wasn't a junction, it was simply an area that had tarmac over the ground, and there was plenty of room for him to pass through, but he swerved the wrong way, he swerved right instead of the way you're meant to (left, in case you didn't know).
I'd learn how to apply pressure with your hand on the brake lever if I were you. Maybe your parents were right after all in saying the bike was too dangerous for you.
Yeah you're right you see I have no hands so I can't pull the brake lever, and maybe that's why my parents think riding a bike is too dangerous for me. Do you think you could teach me how to use the brake? See I cycle down a massive S-shaped hill road everyday, and I manage to use the brake quite well going down there IMO, but you're obviously a pro braker, so could you teach me?
I don't know what impression you have of me. She won't pay for the repairs you silly sausage :P . I wasn't given any money to build the bike up, I paid for it all (bar the forks) myself, and I got the money from working. The forks were a mega awesome gift from a friend of mine. There is no way I would be able to afford new ones any time soon.
Why would I pay someone else to do the repairs? I can tell you I would enjoy fixing my bike a lot more than getting someone else to do it. Unfortunately I can't fix the forks myself, I think the crack goes straight through the shoulder of the fork, in which case I doubt it can be fixed.
He crashed into me, and I'm sorry but in case you haven't noticed light coming of florescent clothing can't penetrate through wooden fences.
It wasn't a junction, it was simply an area that had tarmac over the ground, and there was plenty of room for him to pass through, but he swerved the wrong way, he swerved right instead of the way you're meant to (left, in case you didn't know).
Yeah you're right you see I have no hands so I can't pull the brake lever, and maybe that's why my parents think riding a bike is too dangerous for me. Do you think you could teach me how to use the brake? See I cycle down a massive S-shaped hill road everyday, and I manage to use the brake quite well going down there IMO, but you're obviously a pro braker, so could you teach me?