best simple hint/tip

[ACS]

Why not?

Because it could be hiding a feckin' big hole.

 

[Rob3rt]

MTFU!

 

[400bhp]

Don't go in primary too early with my slow speed at a certain point of my commute: excellent tip given to me by Potsy, stopped all the beeping I was getting!
All the great bike cleaning tips by Mickle of course.

Potsy giving advice.



I thought his stock answer is "buy a bell".

 

[400bhp]

There's always someone faster than you.

 

[ColinJ]

Despite your inner child telling you otherwise

Do not ride through puddles.

Why not?

Because it could be hiding a feckin' big hole.

Been there, done that, almost ripped my 'nads off on the handlebar stem as I shot forwards when the bike stopped dead!

 

[Leaway2]

Use a piece of a wire coat hanger bent at either end to hold a chain when joining a chain back together.

 

[Andrew Gronow]

Don't assume the driver has seen you.

 

[tadpole]

As in life on forums, never argue with an idiot they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
And first impression are normally right, so safe your breath and click the ignore button.
Oh and mickle your chain.

 

[fossyant]

Don't look straight into that new shiny high powered light you have just bought when you switch it on

Don't try and clean the chain of a fixed when spinning the cranks quickly ! Slowly does it.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

photograph it before you dismantel it...

record that serial number before the bike gets nicked...

 

[Rob3rt]

Don't look straight into that new shiny high powered light you have just bought when you switch it on

Don't try and clean the chain of a fixed when spinning the cranks quickly ! Slowly does it.

Tip for you, turn the wheel not the cranks!

 

[fossyant]

Tip for you, turn the wheel not the cranks!

I haven't done it, but have seen pictures of people's fingers (or lack of) who did

 

[Cyclopathic]

Been there, done that, almost ripped my 'nads off on the handlebar stem as I shot forwards when the bike stopped dead!

Owy owy owy. I'm convinced. I won't cycle through puddles.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Don't assume the driver has seen you.

By the way she blithely knocked me into the middle of the next week I very much assume that she did not see me. Either that or she had seen me but has also met me.

 

[Big boy]

Dont ride with shopping bags on the handlebars, buy a rack or rucksack.
Fallin off and skidding along the road hurts....