What is your rescue remedy for cycle breakdowns miles from home?
Helping on the Mille Pennines (1000) last weekend, one rider who was going OK at about 650k pulled at his rear pocket, a buff fell out (he'd left in the relative cool of 5am on Day 3 (Sunday), heading from Sedbergh to Robin Hood's Bay). Said buff fell into return run of chain, wrapped into rear mech and ripped it off, breaking a spoke along the way. He tried to single speed it (breaking chain to the selected chain ring / sprocket) but in doing so the chain tried to climb onto the next larger sprocket and jammed completely, to the extent that he could not remove the through axle. Deep in Wensleydale he chose to get a a taxi back the 50k to Sedbergh. I did not ask the cost. The following day he got a lift back to a station. In conversation he'd had 'get ETA recovery plan' on his list of things to do but had 'run out of time' - "please don't tell the better half".
The ETA 'rescue' would have taken him to Richmond to the bike shop there, or to a station (inconveniently east coast line - Northallerton), or back to Sedbergh.