SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
Sometimes it's impossible to effect a repair on the roadside even with tools, I'm undecided on whether it's shameful or not to ring for assistance or whether walking to the nearest train station is appropriate.
Keep your self respect and save the assistance calls for the real emergencies. and by that i mean if you've had a crash and either you or the bike is no longer in a fit state to travel anywhere. People have got too blasé in the age of mobile phones. If a rider had to go searching for a working BT phone box, or find a shop that was open with a telephone you could use, and possibly this might involve walking several miles pushing or even shouldering an unrideable bike in a rural area, people would take the issue of being equipped to undertake roadside emergency repairs a lot more seriously than many of them do.