How often do you need rescuing?

[nickyboy]

You've got more tolerance and understanding than me...





Thrice?

Nah, train home so doesn't count

But somehow I'd forgotten coming off at 25mph in Marple a couple of months ago. I may have been able to ride home but it's a bloody big hill and I was hurting a lot so I chickened out and phoned international rescue...again

 

[GoldenLamprey]

The train does count in these COVID times.

Never needed rescuing. Catastrophic wheel or tyre problems are the only things I would anticipate ending a ride. I carry a tyre boot and various tools in a pencil case in a pocket. It doesn't matter which bike I am on, I cannot leave them on another bike, which is the issue with saddle bags.

 

[Pale Rider]

The most impressive bit of that story is, finding a parking place in York

Parked in an old engine shed, so as close as it was possible to get to the end of the ride.

The shed was also parking for the nearby hotel, which made me more confident about leaving the car overnight.

When I returned, I told the attendant what I'd been up to, partly because he might wonder why some bloke on a bike was riding into the shed.

"Ah," he said. "Since your car has been here overnight you must have stayed in the hotel."

The 'hotel tariff' was a nice few quid cheaper then the usual 24 hour price.

 

[matticus]

Other was recent. Broken spoke on my hopelessly underspoked fancy wheels a couple of miles from home. Could easily have walked it but that's why you get married for these sort of problems

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Can’t believe you called your wife instead of walking the two miles home.

 

[nickyboy]

Can’t believe you called your wife instead of walking the two miles home.

She was cool about it. Saved me walking half an hour in my cleats. What's the problem?

 

[Mo1959]

She was cool about it. Saved me walking half an hour in my cleats. What's the problem?

I was just thinking about that the other day and even wondered about reverting to flat pedals and trainers for a while in case I have to walk.

 

[Mo1959]

Recessed 2 bolt SPDs. Best of both worlds.

That’s what I’ve got but still wouldn’t fancy walking more than a mile in them.

 

[Blue Hills]

2 bolt SPDs. Best of both worlds.

Yep not too terrible at all to walk in them, even in quite racy looking shoes. I do wear flats loaded touring these days though - less chance of shoe leaks from the bottom and pushing a bike uphill on certain surfaces, particularly cobbles, can be a drag with clips.

 

[Lee_M]

Twice in 10k miles, once because a tubeless tyre wouldn't reseal and I couldnt get the valve off to stick a tube in, and once following a major club ride collision where I fractured my leg and tore all my knee and ankle ligaments.

 

[byegad]

Twice for me.
First time in 'The Great Profanity Incident' on a wet night in Darlington, when I broke two tyre levers, skinned all my knuckles and taught several onlooking urchins some new and 'interesting' words!
The cause? A Marathon+ punctured on a broken bottle that eventually came off the rim at home with the aid of a very large metal motorcycle tyre lever and wire cutters, with, sadly, even more profanity.
The second was caused by a broken seat frame on my Kettwiesel trike, rendering it unrideable.
This persuaded me to join the ETA who recover cycles, and recumbent trikes.

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

It's exceedingly rare that I need rescuing; maybe 3 times in the 11 years I've been cycling.

The most recent incident was on my way to work about a month ago. I got a puncture & discovered my pump was knackered to the point of not working so I called my wife & git a lift into work rather than walk the remaining 3 miles & be late.

If the puncture had happened on the commute home I would have walked home.

 

[Flavio]

fortunately ... never

 

[confusedcyclist]

Only once, I take great pride in that, after all, these legs were made for walking (and cycling).

 

[johnnyb47]

Thankfully I've never been stuck in which a lift home was needed. I've had the odd roadside puncture to condend with, and went through a spell of spokes snapping mid ride which involved a gentle ride back home. Touch wood this year will be the same with no major mishaps. I also take my phone though when out cycling (just in case)