Worried about going out...

[Deleted member 26715]

I am lucky really, I am not confident in traffic, maybe because it has been so long since I was on a bike so I use the country lanes around the village.. which although I do 14-15 miles each day the route I take makes it fairly easy to walk home if needed, like last week when the spokes went and the wheel buckled too much to continue riding I only needed to walk around 3 miles, so I am usually within reasonable walking distance..

See you're not stupid as you say in your first post, I used to do this all the time, I could go over ten miles & never be more than about 2 miles from my house, that way I always knew that it the bike conked, or more likely I conked I could always walk home, either with the bike or without it if I threw it in a bush.

 

[stuarttunstall]

See you're not stupid as you say in your first post, I used to do this all the time, I could go over ten miles & never be more than about 2 miles from my house, that way I always knew that it the bike conked, or more likely I conked I could always walk home, either with the bike or without it if I threw it in a bush.

Lol.. .dont think I would go as far as throwing the bike in a hedge, cost me too much lol...

 

[mjr]

Just take the means to fix a puncture and you won’t get one...go out unprepared and you will...law of sod

By that reasoning, carry a "fiber fix" spoke repair kit and you won't have any more spokes break!

 

[mjr]

Lol.. .dont think I would go as far as throwing the bike in a hedge, cost me too much lol...

I think the idea was to go fetch it later... not all of us live in nasty places with ne'er-do-wells browsing hedges for stray bikes to steal

 

[bladderhead]

On the approach to the corner I looked at the speedo. 27mph. As I went round the corner both tyres went bang simultaneously. The bike threw me in the hedge.