Would you help anyone on the road ?

[chrisuren]

This afternoon, I pulled into the side of the road to help a dad and his son (Quite young) put there chain back on. Got a good feeling for doing it.

However -

When my chain came off, There was a group of 3 or 4 young boys (Teens) on their bikes, and didn't offer any help...

What goes around comes around I suppose....

 

[yenrod]

i would always ask, unless they already had assistance/were boy racers etc.

and i do have some knowledge of engines etc, but through experience, i wont help one member of my family, as after being out in his car, when it broke down several times due to dead battery, when he finally went to buy a new one, he had a massive arguement with me because i pointed out that it may be the alternator, and he should get them to test it rather than take a know it all stance and just get a new battery..


a breakdown later, and the aa man checked, and concluded it was indeed the alternator- never did get an apology.- i have known whats wrong with his car in other instances since, but let him find out the long hard way- serves him right....

One of the facts of life DAN' let them help themselves or find out for themselves but he will apreciate you one day when you say 'no, sorry can't help' !

 

[fossyant]

If they look that they have it sorted - i.e. wheels off and pumping up then no..

If they were struggling then yes -was coming down the Cat & Fiddle a few weeks back, and a guy climbing pulled up - I slowed and said 'are you OK ?' - puzzled look from him ....'thought you might have a mechanical'.... 'no...just taking photos'........ 'OK'..........ah well !

 

[TheDoctor]

I saw a guy stopped by the road a few weeks back, so I slowed and asked if he had everything he needed.
'Yes' came a puzzled sounding reply.
'Got the hedge just here...'

 

[asterix]

i would always ask, unless they already had assistance/were boy racers etc.

and i do have some knowledge of engines etc, but through experience, i wont help one member of my family, as after being out in his car, when it broke down several times due to dead battery, when he finally went to buy a new one, he had a massive arguement with me because i pointed out that it may be the alternator, and he should get them to test it rather than take a know it all stance and just get a new battery..


a breakdown later, and the aa man checked, and concluded it was indeed the alternator- never did get an apology.- i have known whats wrong with his car in other instances since, but let him find out the long hard way- serves him right....

Happened to my van, got me from Limoges (midnight) to East Mids on just the battery. RAC patrol van confirmed it was the alternator and got me going again so I could get to York (I wasn't a member but they still helped!).

 

[Keith Oates]

I always slow down and ask if they need help, in most cases the answer is I'm OK thanks. However one day in China I got a puncture and it was raining quite heavily. Whilst I was putting in the spare tube a very attractive young Chinese Lady, who was walking up the road, stopped and held her umbrella over me until I finished the repair.

 

[Perry]

Yes, I would stop.

My last p_______ two cyclists asked me if I was OK, 3 drivers asked me for directions then drove off.

 

[Mr Pig]

Still short on these options. Where is 'It depends what mood I'm in'?

On Saturday the three of us passed a guy walking with his bike after forty miles of crappy boring canal path. Wind in our faces, legs done, only a few miles to go I waited to see if my two friends in front of me would offer help to the guy. Not a murmur, and I was happy to make it three out of three.

Most other times I'd stop. I've got people moving a few times. In fact I got a mention in a magazine after I lent a guy a bike when his free-wheel packed up on the Glasgow-to-Edinburgh :0)

 

[Globalti]

If I see a cyclist stopped I always ask if they need help. One day my wife and I saw a guy with a nice bike walking awkwardly in his cleats so we offered him a lift - he'd blown a tyre. He was only 10 minutes driving from home, when we reached his house his wife or GF was standing on the doorstep with her arms folded; "What's he done THIS time?" she asked in an irritated voice. We dropped him and scarpered.

Recently I mis-fuelled my car so ended up sitting in the middle of a junction on the ring road for an hour. I was amazed at the numbers of people who stopped to offer help, including a WPC and one young lad who, on hearing my vague explanation about petrol and diesel, disappeared then reappeared five minutes later with a can of petrol! Also four pissed up lads who emerged from a pub, came over and offered to push me off the road, which offer I politely declined.

I have also used my Landy to rescue a Transit from a field (don't ask...) and a young lad in an economy hatch from a downward-sloping icy car park, he was desperate because he was late going to pick up his GF and probably wouldn't have wanted her to know he was loitering in a car park....

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

..yes...I was in Basel last week and saw two ladies trying to push a broken down car off the road up the curb...one was wearing a low cut cheescloth blouse and tight jean cut offs, the other was in a pram...any way suddenly the knight in shining armour in me surfaced and I asked if help was welcome...which it was and together we rolled, huffed & puffed, and pushed the car over the curb. Dunno if I would hav edone the same for a short fat hairy geezer in a busted beamer though

 

[Night Train]

The main reason I would offer to help is that I think it sets a good example even if it is in a very small way. If everyone offered to help then then the World could only become a nicer place.

 

[Arch]

This afternoon, I pulled into the side of the road to help a dad and his son (Quite young) put there chain back on. Got a good feeling for doing it.

However -

When my chain came off, There was a group of 3 or 4 young boys (Teens) on their bikes, and didn't offer any help...

What goes around comes around I suppose....

If they were only teens, they probably didn't have a clue how to help anyway, they were just hanging about, like, innit?

 

[summerdays]

I have stopped and asked if cyclists are OK a couple of times now ... I always worry incase they aren't and then expect me to help them... I might be able to if they just need a pump or to borrow a set of allen keys.

I guess I would be careful where and who I did stop for. Twice I've stopped for very young kids (under 4), - one it turned out the Mum was just around the corner luckily, the other I think had been told not to talk to strangers and so just kept walking (I think it was probably normal for that child to go to the shops on his own but he just ran across the roads, but I felt I couldn't do more without appearing to stalk the child).

 

[trio25]

At least we can rely on everyone but Dom and Trio !

I did say I would ask, but that in certain areas I'm not sure I would stop. Sometimes you have to think about these things, I have been chased on my bike before. Remember I am only a tiny girl!

 

[spandex]

I did say I would ask, but that in certain areas I'm not sure I would stop. Sometimes you have to think about these things, I have been chased on my bike before. Remember I am only a tiny girl!

How would I know Ive never met you but its cool if you dont fill safe you dont have to stop.