I had a brand new cycle once and it lasted a month. 10 or 20 gears, can not remember due to how long I had it.

Mate said to me "can I have a go" his bike was 3 gears.

I said sure thing.
We were in a park.

There was a massive influx of black migrants at the time in Birmingham.

10 of them on bikes called my mate over, kicked him off my bike and 1 road off on it. He was the only without a bike.
I could not peddle fast enough to get my own bike back.

Shit happens. Lost it. Went into motorbikes instead. Never looked back :-)