Cycle path

[presta]

Probably mine was avoidable if someone had done there job right.

It was probably avoidable if you'd stayed at home as well, but that's not the point is it. If you want to ride the bike you need to accept the roads the way they are, not the way you'd like them to be. It doesn't seem to have occurred to you that the vast majority of punctures are just caused by pieces of grit off the road.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

the more i read ,the more i am convinced this is a wind up

I thought it was a wind up from the first post.

 

[presta]

Thank you are quite correct bought double ended tube now so I don't have to remove the rear wheel bit of a faf on a ebike.

If the puncture is as easy to find as a hedge trimming you don't even need to take the wheel off in the first place.

 

[Wyn Davies]

It was probably avoidable if you'd stayed at home as well, but that's not the point is it. If you want to ride the bike you need to accept the roads the way they are, not the way you'd like them to be. It doesn't seem to have occurred to you that the vast majority of punctures are just caused by pieces of grit off the road.

 

[Wyn Davies]

Yes you are right but this was caused by a arrogant individual who thinks it's ok to leave a mess like that I could have crashed into a pedestrian it's just not right.

 

[Wyn Davies]

If the puncture is as easy to find as a hedge trimming you don't even need to take the wheel off in the first place.

You have lost me there.

 

[vickster]

Yes you are right but this was caused by a arrogant individual who thinks it's ok to leave a mess like that I could have crashed into a pedestrian it's just not right.

How would a rear wheel puncture on a cycle path which presumably is not made up of steep declines cause you to crash into a pedestrian unless you were going at speeds far in excess of what is sensible on a shared path? Whenever I've had a rear wheel puncture on the flat, I've just rolled to a bumpy slow stop

Especially in the dark, if your lights are strong enough to see the path appropriately, you would have probably blinded the poor oncoming ped first!

Have you complained to the farmer directly or started small claims court proceedings now?

 

[Wyn Davies]

How would a rear wheel puncture on a cycle path which presumably is not made up of steep declines cause you to crash into a pedestrian unless you were going at speeds far in excess of what is sensible on a shared path? Whenever I've had a rear wheel puncture on the flat, I've just rolled to a bumpy slow stop

Especially in the dark, if your lights are strong enough to see the path appropriately, you would have probably blinded the poor oncoming ped first!

Have you complained to the farmer directly or started small claims court proceedings now?

Not yet

 

[vickster]

Not yet

Presumably you took lots of photos of the location and mess as proof. I wouldn't leave it too long, it's been a week already no?

 

[roadrash]

do you even know who the (in your words)…. arrogant individual who thinks it's ok to leave a mess like that, actually is,

 

[snorri]

Try to look on the bright side, your wife didn't suffer a puncture in the car on her journey to rescue you.

 

[presta]

You have lost me there.

As long as you can find the stalk that caused the puncture easily, there's no need to take the wheel off to mend it is there. Just lift the tyre bead, pull a bit of tube out, patch it, stuff it back.

 

[Wyn Davies]

As long as you can find the stalk that caused the puncture easily, there's no need to take the wheel off to mend it is there. Just lift the tyre bead, pull a bit of tube out, patch it, stuff it back.

I will remember that thank you.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What about here job?

or everywhere job?

 

[Wyn Davies]

or everywhere job?

On your bike sunshine