I tend to find out about these things a week before I'm expected to pull something out of the bag!
Yesterday I passed 3 (separate) people stationary, fiddling with their bikes: one mending a puncture, one trying to stop his mudguards rubbing, and the third struggling to get a chain uns(t)uck. At the offer of help, I got @Racing roadkill 's second quoted response, but this was Cornwall, not racing roadkill country.
Whether I do depends if I'm on my way to an appointment or not - there'll usually be another cyclist along in a minute around here anyway. Those of you who claim to ask every time, do you never need to be anywhere by a set time?
So what's the point if you don't carry enough tools to help?
Why did you do that?
Bristol's just a short train ride away, although it's not cheap. There used to be a bike project on the Oldmixon somewhere but I can't find it now so maybe it closed.
Bristol's just a short train ride away, although it's not cheap. There used to be a bike project on the Oldmixon somewhere but I can't find it now so maybe it closed.
Yes the traffic's awful, but Bristol has more decent cycle tracks than Weston, so you don't have to play in the traffic like you must in some bits of Weston (unless you like an off-road lumpy feeling :-/ ). One can easily cycle from Temple Meads to Hamilton House and only be on busy-ish road for the short descent from the park to Cabot Circus http://cycle.travel/map/journey/19585
Did they not even wave and say hello?
Still, the original reason I suggested Bristol was because there was a bike maintenance course there. It's only just over a mile from the station, so you could walk there if you wanted. Actually, it looks like a pretty good place to learn bicycle maintenance. The Thursday night "Bike Kitchen" looks very much like the maintenance nights where I learned to repair. You have to manage on your own, but if you get stuck, there's someone to help you out. That's very useful, because if you have never changed a gear cable, you won't know if the problem is something you have done or the shifter is broken (that happened to me).
I always like seeing others ways of getting around and doing the same journey, I wouldn't have thought of that one and would be more likely to head out a bit more east, but more on road (still back roads), but then I'm used to Bristol traffic, but would feel a little unsure in WSM not knowing my way around!
Whether I do depends if I'm on my way to an appointment or not - there'll usually be another cyclist along in a minute around here anyway. Those of you who claim to ask every time, do you never need to be anywhere by a set time?
So what's the point if you don't carry enough tools to help?
Why did you do that?
Bristol's just a short train ride away, although it's not cheap. There used to be a bike project on the Oldmixon somewhere but I can't find it now so maybe it closed.
Well, at least learn to type a name correctly, then!
Like the grouch above: dyslexia/typo does not equate to incompetency combined with idiocy. Having said that:
But failing to copy paste names if you are indeed dyslexic does. Techniques for using computers to mitigate dyslexia when writing are well known. There are typos which are hard to avoid despite them, but that's not one. It's a name, therefore copy paste, unless you want to insult them.
