What else would bicycle repair man do
My experience of this is that such folk only need their cellphone so all they have to do is ring the 'GLW-come-and-collect-service' - !
I did similar fifty or so years ago. Just never occurred to us that we might get a puncture or otherwise break down. But were bikes simpler and more reliable with tougher tyres back then, or were we simply lucky - ? Also cycled from Larne to Rosstrevor and back in the late sixties and I don't recollect taking any particular breakdown precautions. But being of Irish descent, maybe the wee folk were looking after their own - !
My simple philosophy too.
I always ask, and mostly it's yup we're good, but I've donated tube/scab/repair kit and left them to it if they have a clue (but not the bit needed) if I can't hang around (leading a group etc), but it usually only takes 10 minutes to fix anything fixable - or certify that recovery is needed. I have on occasion demonstrated p*ncture repair to the victim of the fairy and to my group.
I think that's junk, like putting white wine on a red wine stain: all it does is dilute the black oil stain with "clean" oil and if the black oil has enough black matter mixed in, you then just have a bigger slightly-less-black oil stain to clean up. If it manages to "just lift right off", there wasn't that much black matter in it anyway.But as an aside, I was reminded the other day of a super effective way of getting dirty oil stains off of your skin, after mechanical work..
Vegetable oil - of any sort , rub it in well, and the ingrained black oil stains just lift right off and then all you need is soap and hot water to wash off both...
