Ridgeway
Veteran
- Location
- Lausanne, Switzerland
If you'd have met my wife then you'll know that walking home, thumbing a lift or becoming a "good enough to get me home bodger" are easier options, it's all about motivation
*makes note not to ride with Tim*Once, I fell off for no apparent reason and felt very unwell. I hit my head that hard the side of my helmet was crushed. I phoned for a taxi cab.
However, I have had some lucky escapes. I have dealt with most of the problems listed above. 3 things come to mind. I got a hole in my tyre sidewall and the only thing I could do is wrap one of my socks around the replacement tube, inflate to a low pressure and ride home carefully. Another time the right crank snapped, it was loads of fun cycling 30 miles on one leg. My freewheel broke on one ride. That time I was around 45 miles from home. I used zip ties and tied the sprockets and spokes of my back wheel together making an improvised fixed gear.
I keep a piece of plastic cut from a milk carton with my spare tube as an emergency tyre boot in case of tyre failures...I got a hole in my tyre sidewall and the only thing I could do is wrap one of my socks around the replacement tube, inflate to a low pressure and ride home carefully....
Yes that was a learning curve. I keep a piece of toothpaste tube.I keep a piece of plastic cut from a milk carton with my spare tube as an emergency tyre boot in case of tyre failures
Wise man!*makes note not to ride with Tim*
Wise man!
In my defence, I am thinking all the way back to the 80s. Just had a disturbing thought, yes I am that old.
Yep. Carrying sufficient clothes or heaters to keep warm while making the fix is a very good idea at this time of year.I presume you could shorten the chain and run it as single speed if absolutely necessary?
Update, I chose to get rescued yesterday, I was 2 miles from home and got a flint puncture, so lazily phoned the other half, and then sorted it in the warmth of the kitchen, rather than in the cold. I did have everything with me to sort at the roadside should I have needed to though.You'd think you'd need a 1 in 10 miles from some of the hysteria on he other thread.
I'm a never.....
I once snapped a chain on a MTB without having my chain tool with me, short scoot / freewheel and 1/4 mile push up the hill home.
I've managed to snap twice (and repair once) in 5 mins a chain on my own driveway - I got another bike out and ordered a new chain on the 2nd snap. it was first outing on that (summer) bike not sure what had happened over winter?
I also got a puncture on a hotel hire bike before I'd got past the swimming pool much to the amusement of my mates, I also punctured about half way round) and got called a fat knacker for the rest of the ride. At least the hire shop replaced the first tube and I did the 2nd whilst being encouraged to "hurry up fatty".