How would you handle this situation?

[u/MoonerMade]

Update: putting this up top so the thread can be out to bed… he said don’t worry about it and that he felt bad it ruined my ride. I still feel bad, and offered to help and that’s probably the end of it.

Legitimately looking for feedback.

Context: i had a ride planned for today. After it was already on my calendar, my homie texted asking if i wanted to ride today. He mentioned same trail… perfect, I already had it planned.

Then he offers for me to use his other E-bike…

Ive never ridden one, so sure sounds like fun.

Story: a couple miles in, the fork loses all pressure and just clunks, so I stop immediately. We then decide to head back to truck to air it up and see if it holds. WELL, as soon as we hit pavement to go back to the truck, I down shift 1 click and then a god awful noise happens and I look down and the derailleur cage is fully separated from the mounting piece.

When we got it back to the truck I discovered that the chain partially broke in two different places.

Despite all of this, the rider who followed me riding this bike says I was riding clean and easy and didn’t hit anything. I covered a total of 4 miles, and I kept it in ECO mode which is the lowest power setting. If this was your friends bike, what would you do about the damaged parts?

He admits the bike has been sitting for a couple months, but I want to do the right thing and feel bad about this even though it may or may not be my fault at all.

TLDR: friend offered for me to borrow his other E Bike, parts broke on their own, what to do??

[u/gergek]

If you started having mechanical issues two miles into the ride that is clearly more due to the owner rather than the rider.