It's okay, I've 'phoned the wife.

[guitarpete247]

GF has just told me. If I didn't tell her I'd had an accident she'd kill me.

 

[numbnuts]

The answer is simple - get married!

A wife / SO is an integral part of the tool kit!

Had one of them once never again, I'd sooner walk.

 

[Stevec047]

Single here so have to rely on my limited knowledge and ability to tinker.

Having said that I am sure my boys mum would get me out of a sticky situation.

The other thing I have questioned is who do I add as next of kin my 4 year old and 2 year old won't be much help in an accident so do I ask the ex if she is happy to be added or not?

 

[Bazzer]

Unless the waste matter has really hit the fast spinning blades, I wouldn't be ringing my better half.
Thinking about it, the two times I have tried to ring her after accidents, she didn't answer.

 

[lutonloony]

i suffered an exploding RD with no tools. No phone so a 4 mile walk home down busy country rd. Mrs L decided to come out looking for me as I was so late home. Sadly she drove round the roundabout as I was in the underpass, so I was home whilst she looked for me for 30 mins without her phone. How she laughed when she got back!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I've called the support team out twice, once was the first winter I used ice tyres and I got a puncture on the way home, I decided it was way too cold to try and fix it roadside. Only a couple of miles from home

Second time (also on ice tyres) my chain snapped 48 miles into a 100 miler. 10 miles from home, got home jumped on another bike rode out to where the chain snapped and finished the ride.

 

[simongt]

The answer is simple - get married!

Ahh, but as I suggested in the original post, my GLW has by choice, never learned to drive and she has no desire to start - !

 

[toddmeister]

Now there are those of us who either don't have the benefit of a wife

You can have mine if you want? She's no trouble.....honest

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I don't understand this preference for phoning for assistance, it's got to be the worst of all worlds in most situations. The majority of problems out and about are tyres, so you flat, you decide to phone your dearest, she or he may be on the way within 5, at your location in another 10 or 20 at best, maybe much, much more... then on arrival you have to pack the bike into the car, and then drive the same distance home with the ride finished. I'm shite at changing a tube quickly and yet even I'm confident that I can get going again in ten minutes or so and the day's not spoiled.

Granted, you may get a more serious issue in serious weather and then the lift home becomes attractive (even critical), but for a tyre? Hand in the man card as you enter the vehicle sir.

 

[Sharky]

Think I've had to phone for help about 4 times
- When I was about 14, in 1964 with a friend and after about 70 miles on a 90 mile ride, we both were exhausted
- About 20 years ago, on my 23 mile commute home in the winter after a couple of punctures in the freezing cold was shivering and weak and had to shelter in a phone box until rescued.
- About 10 years ago on a club run and noticed that my rear triangle has rusted through and broken.
- And about 8 years ago - I called my wife "I'm OK, I'm in an ambulance - can you pick me up from Maidstone A&E"

 

[Gert Lush]

I've rung for help twice, both times because I'd bonked. One I was a good 25miles away from home, halfway round a 50mile loop. The second time was rather embarrassing, I was following another person gps ride and didn't know where I was. Turns out I was about 1mile from my house.

I've since learned to eat while riding.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I don't have neither wife nor car, but I do have Marathon tyres
If I go any route that takes me in the middle of nowhere I carry the necessary.
I figure if I carry the tool and can't manage the repair, another cyclist maybe can.
Of course I can change an inner, but I don't kid myself on that I could do it with frozen hands in the dark, so in winter I don't ride alone on a remote routes.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

.
The other thing I have questioned is who do I add as next of kin my 4 year old and 2 year old won't be much help in an accident so do I ask the ex if she is happy to be added or not?

This is a bit of a problem: I used to put the name of my cat as an emergency number to avoid telling people a long sob story about myself
I have now given my house keys to a neighbourgh and got some dog tags made.
Numbers on the tags are the neighbourgh's and a couple of close friends.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I've rung twice, once after being hit and run to tell her I wasn't going to make it to Bro in Law's birthday party on time bit was still alive. 2nd time was the first failure of the POS Sturmey hub gear I have on my Birdy.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I don't have neither wife nor car, but I do have Marathon tyres
If I go any route that takes me in the middle of nowhere I carry the necessary.
I figure if I carry the tool and can't manage the repair, another cyclist maybe can.
Of course I can change an inner, but I don't kid myself on that I could do it with frozen hands in the dark, so in winter I don't ride alone on a remote routes.

You be surprised how much help a pair of latex gloves makes to cold wet hands for winter fixing, but keeping to safe sensible routes is smart.