Thank you to the stranger who ...

[Bimble]

... picked me up off the floor and gave me and my broken bike a lift home after I face-planted on black ice one winter. Your kindness was very much appreciated and I hope good Karma caught up with you and gave you a suitable reward or treat.

I managed to pass some kindness back on much later when I saw a group of kids milling around an upturned bike after one of them got a puncture. They didn't have anything to fix it with, but didn't live too far away, so we called their mums to explain and I offered to give them a lift home in the works van. It was only a couple of miles, which they seemed to appreciate as it was a hot day and the kids had headed out without anything to drink. Happy kids. Happy me.

How about you? Ever had some much-appreciated help from a stranger when you've been in a right pickle?

 

[Julia9054]

I managed to kick my pannier off (my fault - i hadn't fastened it on properly) Two blokes leapt off the pavement, stopped the following car and rescued it with centimetres to spare before the car's front wheel ran over my iPad.
Thanks guys!

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Thanks to the couple a few years ago who gave me a lift back to my car on Cannock Chase in their van. Man, I was so lost, it was getting dark and I had to be back for some child related outing. To give a stranger a lift was noble and good.


Especially when he gave his name as 'Stan'.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Thanks also to @Apollonius for scooping my sorry but into his car and getting me home yesterday.

 

[Markymark]

Thanks to a great bunch of cyclists that I met in Cambridge a couple of weeks back that reminded me how young and awesome I was in comparison.

 

[Markymark]

Actually the biggest thanks was for the organiser.

 

[redvision95]

A couple of months ago the car died on the A5, It was a three-hour wait for the AA to arrive. We had waited an hour before somebody stopped to offer help. The guy who introduced himself as paul was actually a mobile mechanic, Told us to cancel the AA, He would sort us out. Towed us into Brownhills and set about diagnosing what had happened and somehow got the car to start. He then followed us home just in case it died. Paul refused any sort of reward, Didn't want payment. Just asked us to "pay it forward"

Not had the opportunity to do so yet, But definitely will.

 

[wheresthetorch]

I fell off my BMW bike once on a slippery mini roundabout on a dark, wet night and couldn't pick it up by myself. Everyone was driving around me, some helpfully hooting at me for being in the way. Then a car pulled over and two women sprinted across the road and helped me pick it up. "That's ok, we're bikers too" they said when I thanked them.

 

[Welsh wheels]

Had a tyre blow-out once, a man stopped and offered me a lift home.

 

[Will Spin]

I came a cropper descending a hill after hitting a bump, went flying through the air thinking "this is going to hurt"...it did. Found myself flat on my back but unable to get up due to excrutiating pain. Nice lady and her husband stopped a few minutes later, called an ambulance and put my bike in their car to take it home for me. Turned out I'd shattered my right shoulder. I had a very good surgeon who managed to pin everything back together.

 

[Markymark]

When I came off after a badly executed right turn at speed on a gravel covered road after trashing my iPhone (the real tragedy here), literally the first car I flagged down put my bike on his boot and drove my back to my hotel.

 

[Mrs M]

I was out myself in the middle of nowhere on my road bike.
Stopped at the side of the road to talk to some sheep (and cute wee lambs)
A handsome young man on a very smart bike stopped to ask if I was ok.
I said I'd just stopped to talk to the sheep. He looked at me funny and zoomed off.

 

[ufkacbln]

I was out myself in the middle of nowhere on my road bike.
Stopped at the side of the road to talk to some sheep (and cute wee lambs)
A handsome young man on a very smart bike stopped to ask if I was ok.
I said I'd just stopped to talk to the sheep. He looked at me funny and zoomed off.

If he had looked "sheepish"?

 

[wheresthetorch]

If he had looked "sheepish"?

Jokes like that really get my goat.

 

[hopless500]

I fell off my BMW bike once on a slippery mini roundabout on a dark, wet night and couldn't pick it up by myself. Everyone was driving around me, some helpfully hooting at me for being in the way. Then a car pulled over and two women sprinted across the road and helped me pick it up. "That's ok, we're bikers too" they said when I thanked them.

I dropped my XJ600 and people just drove round me. I managed to pick the bugger back up too