Very disappointed..........

[summerdays]

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.

Your name is an easy one to get wrong, I've done it myself, it's just one of those ones where the brain tries to be helpful and rearranges the letters so you read it without realising what your brain has done.

 

[Tim Hall]

@mjray for a long time I read your name as Mr Jay. I'm not dyslexic and I had no intention of insulting you. In fact I only discovered my error when tagging you in a post and the automatic user lookup thingy failed to locate @mrjay.

But back on topic, sort of...

I have been wondering, just how adaptable are inner tubes? I have given old style (27 x 1 1/4 or similar) to a friend running modern (700x25 or similar) as a get you home measure which worked ok. But in extremis, how far could you go? I stopped to help a MTBer with a puncture and no spare tube. I gave him some patches, but I wonder, would a 700x28 tube have served to get him home? After all, inner tubes are very very stretchy. Offhand I have no idea what size his wheels or tyres were. They were big and knobbly.

I reckon, with a bit of creative folding, it would have got him home, depending, of course, how far away home is. IME the tube will fret at the fold and give way eventually.

My stopping for cyclists anecdote: My mate and I were on an audax once and chanced upon a pair of cyclists by the side of the road. Or, more accurately, a pair of cyclists a small way up a track to the side of the road. We asked if they were OK, and the male of the pair indicated some help would be useful. We swung up the track and he, rather hurriedly, advanced towards us in a "heading off" kind of manner, even though the broken bike was even further back up the track. As was his wife, having a wee.

 

[mjr]

I have been wondering, just how adaptable are inner tubes? I have given old style (27 x 1 1/4 or similar) to a friend running modern (700x25 or similar) as a get you home measure which worked ok. But in extremis, how far could you go? I stopped to help a MTBer with a puncture and no spare tube. I gave him some patches, but I wonder, would a 700x28 tube have served to get him home? After all, inner tubes are very very stretchy.

I think it's easier sizing up slightly than down, as stretching is OK until it goes too far, but folding/creasing results in friction and blowouts. It's often marked on the boxes: the tubes I use in my 27x1¼s (32-630) are marked to also do down to 25c (25-622).

An MTB was probably on something like 50-559 which is both much smaller diameter and much fatter than your tubes, so I doubt it would have worked. Carrying patches is always a good idea if you like being helpful.

 

[jefmcg]

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.

Are you really getting offended because people are misspelling your forum name? That is pretty thin-skinned, especially as you seem to have chosen a forum name that is easy to mix up. Save your battles for an issue that's important.

I'll add my name to to list of of mrjay-ers, just on the last page. Honest mistake, and I am not dyslexic. It would never occur to me that someone would be offended by that kind of error. I have a simple though old fashioned given name, and people mispronounce it more often than you'd think, and a surname rare and complicated enough that I want to give a bunch of flowers to anyone who spells it correctly or pronounces it the way I do (and that differs from my father's pronunciation btw). I try not to get offended, but this is my actual name and identity, not some anonymous pseudonym.

partial TMN to @mrjay

 

[mjr]

Are you really getting offended because people are misspelling your forum name?

No, not offended and one-off errors are fine/understandable, but I think mangling it as consistently as certain posters do takes commitment that is probably a childish attempt to be annoying, or at least being too daft to copy-paste. It's like if I consistently referred to "jiffie muck" or "bog trousers".

That is pretty thin-skinned, especially as you seem to have chosen a forum name that is easy to mix up.

Not exactly choice, as I use my real name here, unlike many anonymous cowards. On other forums, I just use the initials MJR but that was already taken here. I can't see how to recapitalise my forum name to try to help people see it is not "Mr" at the start. My name gets fluffed sometimes in real life too, much more than most people would think for a name that is so short and sweet, but it's similar: occasional errors are no problem, but if someone keeps botching it, then I'll consider them at least careless.

 

[Tim Hall]

. On other forums, I just use the initials MJR but that was already taken here.

It's not taken at present as far as I can see.

 

[Moodyman]

I have a simple though old fashioned given name, and people mispronounce it

Jef? Or Jeff or Geoff?

 

[2IT]

[QUOTE="alvintc, post: 4181392, member: 11513" he pulled up 5 minutes (in a car) later with said pump and off I was.

On the off chance he's on here - top man!
*a 5-and-a-bit mile walk with the bike[/QUOTE]

The few times that I have needed help I was given a lift back. There are good people out there willing to help. And often those with cars are the most able to help.

While it is good manners to acknowledge a fellow rider in need, some don't because they might not have the ability, material or time at that given moment. Some may also be on their way to a PR on a training course. All in all though, my experience when I have needed help has been good.

 

[speccy1]

Well, at least learn to type a name correctly, then!

A simple mistake, am very sorry, and I`m glad I`m not the only one. Take a chill pill

If you wanted to take a competitive English exam, bring it on, it always was my strong point, so any time matey