Surprising but true: the economics of hamster power just don't work.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/09/many-hamsters-take-power-home-cheaper-coal-power/
Stuffing a tyre with grass.
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http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/09/many-hamsters-take-power-home-cheaper-coal-power/
We should just get the government to repeal the second law of thermodynamics, and the first as well, while they are at it.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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How do you stop the stuff falling out as you pack the other half of the tyre?
Craig the cyclist
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A bloke did this on an Exmouth Exodus one year. I passed him about 2 miles later, he said he had taken 45 minutes to do it, and could he borrow my phone as stuffing your tyre just doesn't work!
mickle
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When Richard Ballantine was writing this:
he commissioned me to build a bike for a spread in the book about get-you-home-bodges. One of the things he wanted to feature was a tyre stuffed with grass. I didn't think it would work. It didn't work. But it went in the book anyway. So I am, in part, responsible for perpetuating this myth, for which, I feel a great deal of shame and I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise.
he commissioned me to build a bike for a spread in the book about get-you-home-bodges. One of the things he wanted to feature was a tyre stuffed with grass. I didn't think it would work. It didn't work. But it went in the book anyway. So I am, in part, responsible for perpetuating this myth, for which, I feel a great deal of shame and I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise.
KneesUp
Guru
A mate I was on a bike ride did this at my suggestion - we used long, thick grass pulled out as large pieces from near a pond. He said it was very uncomfortable riding the 11 miles home (it was the rear wheel) and the tyre was wrecked, but he got home without the tyre coming off the rim, so I suppose it worked.
EDIT - we were 16 or 17 and skint in the school holidays. I'd like to think were we to go on the same ride again we'd google the nearest bike shop rather than spend an hour pissing about pulling up grass!
EDIT - we were 16 or 17 and skint in the school holidays. I'd like to think were we to go on the same ride again we'd google the nearest bike shop rather than spend an hour pissing about pulling up grass!
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I expect some of us have done that without taking time to add any grass! (I've ridden slowly on a totally flat tyre more than once)
Very interesting- likely this is where I first heard of this bodge.
GuyBoden
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I find it much easier to bring a few spare innertubes on every ride.
Spoilsport
I found that very challenging when I used either panniers or a courier bag depending on what bike I was riding to work. Invariably I'd forget to transfer stuff from one bag to the other.
I stick to the bag these days so mostly good (although I still managed to forget to return my minipump to the bag once and rode around for months without it)
pawl
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I don’t fancy being around you lot come Christmas 
Craig the cyclist
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So you take spare inner tubes and stuff the tyre with them? Makes sense I suppose, do you cut them in to strips or just ram them in?
taximan
senex crepitu iuvenis cordi esse
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Back in me yoof, one of my mates scrounged a bit of hosepipe from a garage and he managed to cycle about 25 miles home with it.
