jefmcg
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Is it international mansplain day today?
Ruined Ride.
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Sorry, that wasn't my intention at all. I would have asked the exact same question regardless of the gender of the person who'd had such an experience.
<Puts down shovel, steps away from hole>
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Slick
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People are already getting on to me for the gear I carry but after today, that looks like a good idea.
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Probably something else I'll need to add to the kit bag if I don't want to be left stranded in future. I reckon it would need to be a last resort but a good tip none the less.
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http://www.wiggle.co.uk/topeak-hexus-ii-16-function-multi-tool/
excellent chain breaker (used it at home, never on the road).
Just don't try to use the tyre levers.
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Slick
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Thanks for the tip, I've just ordered one.
An approach I've used to some success in the past is as follows:. Go for a ride and by chance intersect with an Audax. Stop to offer assistance to a hapless audax rider who is pushing their bike with a broken chain. Realise you don't have you useful Box if Bits with small chain tool. Flag down a passing rider who happens to be a cycle chatter. I used @Dogtrousers but I'm sure other cycle chatters will do just as well. Get them to fix it while the hapless audax rider ponders on this massive coincidence. Go home for tea and medals cake.
mustang1
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12 miles into a planned 50 miler after 3 days of doing not very much, and this happens.
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I suppose there's still time for a game of golf.
I'm not sure what the problem is. All you have to do is get the backup bike out?
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That's what's happening tomorrow. The Cannondale was serviced and lubed before being hung on the garage wall for the winter as you can't fit mud guards and doesn't have discs. I'm determined to get a few miles under my belt before going back to work on Monday so I'm going round Loch Katrine then over the Dukes Pass before heading back to Stirling with my brother. I had planned a much easier route today though.
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Slick
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I realise that now. To be honest, I did rather hope never to need any maintenance skills, but I'm starting to realise that's a bit naive. I've ordered the multitool with the chain splitter on it, so just need to learn the skill now.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I met Jim on the event the following year and he asked if he could ride with me again. I jokingly said that he could on condition that he had bought himself a chain splitter. He proudly whipped out a multitool identical to the one that I had used to fix his bike!
Welsh wheels
Lycra king
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- South Wales
Gutting.12 miles into a planned 50 miler after 3 days of doing not very much, and this happens.
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I suppose there's still time for a game of golf.
Enjoy the cake though! A similar thing happened to me years back. Think I've got a picture somewhere
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Pale Rider
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A cyclist with a broken chain appeared pushing his bike as we regrouped at the top of Ditchling Beacon on a forum ride.
I expect we could have mustered several chain breakers - I have one - but @ianrauk was the most organised and whipped his out first - so to speak.
The cyclist clearly knew what he was doing because he remade the chain in a couple of minutes.
Just as well he did it - both his hands were black afterwards.
I expect we could have mustered several chain breakers - I have one - but @ianrauk was the most organised and whipped his out first - so to speak.
The cyclist clearly knew what he was doing because he remade the chain in a couple of minutes.
Just as well he did it - both his hands were black afterwards.
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Wow, that looks worse than mine. That's more as @User9609 described snagging the spokes?Gutting.
