Miquel In De Rain
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Mini pump works,don't like co2 cartridges.
The Long Walk Home...
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A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Exactly my feeling. Buy and try a Mini-pump before you need it in an emergency, if it works at home then you can be reasonably sure it will work at the roadside. I have a niggling worry that CO2 is a rather restrictive medium, if it works then great but if it doesn't for any reason (pinched inner tubes or missed thorns etc), or you have multiple puncture then co2 doesn't give you any second chances!
ColinJ
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- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
As suggested by others, in that situation I'd have made the bike into a singlespeed so I didn't have to walk.
I had a crank break once, a problem which was unfixable without actually replacing the crank, so ... I rode 5 miles home one-legged!
Another time, I had a saddle clamp bolt break. I put the saddle in my back pocket and rode a couple of miles home standing up.
I had a rear wheel spoke snap on one forum ride and the wheel went so badly out of true that it wouldn't turn. I took the rear mudguard off and removed the back brake blocks and then very gingerly rode 12 miles to Blackpool station to catch a train home.
If my chain was somehow damaged so badly that it couldn't be shortened to a still usable length, I would take one or two of the pieces of spare chain that I always carry and lengthen it!
If the chain got completely destroyed - I'm not sure how that would happen - I would clip my left foot onto the right pedal and use the bike as a scooter!
I had a crank break once, a problem which was unfixable without actually replacing the crank, so ... I rode 5 miles home one-legged!
Another time, I had a saddle clamp bolt break. I put the saddle in my back pocket and rode a couple of miles home standing up.
I had a rear wheel spoke snap on one forum ride and the wheel went so badly out of true that it wouldn't turn. I took the rear mudguard off and removed the back brake blocks and then very gingerly rode 12 miles to Blackpool station to catch a train home.
If my chain was somehow damaged so badly that it couldn't be shortened to a still usable length, I would take one or two of the pieces of spare chain that I always carry and lengthen it!
If the chain got completely destroyed - I'm not sure how that would happen - I would clip my left foot onto the right pedal and use the bike as a scooter!
