I plead guilty to being rescued once.I misvoted. I realised I have been rescured once. Evans replaced by tern frame with a Dahon and the saddle mount cracked from the frame causing me to fall onto the rear wheel / derailleur and have an extremely sore posterior. I called for rescue on that occasion!
This goes for waiting for a pick-up too. I don't have a "phone home" option (there are people I could lean on if I really needed the support but I wouldn't want to do it) but I usually have extra clothing with me in case I find myself inactive and cooling down.Yep. Carrying sufficient clothes or heaters to keep warm while making the fix is a very good idea at this time of year.
As in this example (which I linked to a few pages back)...I presume you could shorten the chain and run it as single speed if absolutely necessary?
I was in a group of about 30 riders on the Costa Blanca. We had just hit a small hill and were starting to power our way up it when we heard a loud noise and a stream of expletives coming from the back of the group. A rider had just tried to change gear and his gear hanger had broken, sending his rear mech into the wheel. Several spokes were broken, his mech was hanging down into the wheel and the chain was mangled. We were about 30 miles from our hotel, in the middle of nowhere.
Between us, we managed to take off his rear mech, shorten the damaged section of chain and turn his bike into a singlespeed for the ride back, and straighten his rear wheel enough to make it rideable with the back brake slackened off.
To a degree, but it's easier to run laps of the bike when not trying to fix it!This goes for waiting for a pick-up too. I don't have a "phone home" option (there are people I could lean on if I really needed the support but I wouldn't want to do it) but I usually have extra clothing with me in case I find myself inactive and cooling down.