http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Run of bad/good luck en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:38:30 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14978#post-191195 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:09:42 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 191195@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I typed too soon</p> <p>Another bloody puncture on the way home on Monday night :-( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14978#post-191176 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:06:26 +0000 threefromleith 191176@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I always slow and ask. Most recently it was last week, just after 6am, when I was approaching a rider on the NEPN who was carrying a bike identical to mine on his shoulder. He'd punctured &amp; didn't have any repair kit / spare tubes on him. I offered him one of my spares, but he declined with thanks and said he was heading off to a local bike shop. </p> <p>Given the time, I suspect he'd have had a few hours to kill before it opened! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14978#post-191120 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 07:14:11 +0000 I were right about that saddle 191120@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The thing about passing a fellow bicyclist with a mechanical. It's fraught, isn't it? Cold-hearted automaton or patronising clever-clogs? Ah, the great British social faux pas.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH9ajekHNKM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH9ajekHNKM</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14978#post-191029 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:17:57 +0000 kaputnik 191029@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I always carry a wee multi-size dumbell spanner in my toolkit, you can get them for sweeties in most bike shops. </p> <p>Useful for on-the-road tightening/tinkering with loose/rubbing mudguards. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14978#post-191020 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:02:19 +0000 sallyhinch 191020@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Out here on rural roads I always check, and I would never be offended by the offer. It only has to be a slowing down and a 'you OK there? Need anything?' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14978#post-191015 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:28:47 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 191015@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I always ask, and appreciate that sometimes offends. However I've both handed over a spare tube, and been on the receiving end of one.</p> <p>Apologies if I sounded critical of the passer's by. It was meant more of an observation. There does seem to be many more cyclists on my route(s) than a couple of years ago. Maybe you need to be offered help, before you start doing so yourself - I'm pretty sure it was a random act of kindness/concern that got me into the habit of offering assistance rather than any inbuilt/natural philanthropy </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14978#post-191010 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:20:37 +0000 paolobr 191010@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I always check, have helped out a few people over the years (punctures, seat adjustments etc, recently young lad with chain jammed between sprockets and rear stay). Last week, on an evening ride in East Lothian, I even slowed to check with a motorist on a back road who had stopped. They were OK, had just had a puncture and had changed wheels... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14978#post-191008 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:21:01 +0000 dougal 191008@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I always slow to ask, even if the person looks competent because there's still the chance they're out of patches or just broke a tool or something you can't plan for. Even if it's just a second person to hold the frame while brute force is applied. If I see someone walking their bike I first look for mobile phone clamped to ear. Never needed to help anyone yet. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14978#post-191001 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:55:11 +0000 chdot 191001@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah yes -</p> <p>"To stop or not to stop? (...for another cyclist)"</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5681" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5681</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14978#post-191000 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:50:16 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 191000@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A week past Friday I hit a huge hole at the East End causing irreparable damage to my rear rim and tyre on my SS. </p> <p>I did manage to <em>almost</em> get to work before the tyre went flat. Despite the damage I replaced the tube, which <em>almost</em> got me home before it too gave way </p> <p>Friday past, my chain snapped nr the top of Jeffrey street. I could freewheel to the Queen's Park. Not as almost home as the previous Friday, but reasonably close.</p> <p>This morning, back on the resplendent looking newly repaired SS, a puncture. Nothing obviously in the brand new tyre, perhaps I'd under inflated and hit a wee bump too hard?</p> <p>No offer of help from the 17 cyclists who passed me in Roseburn Park, so I walked her to Kwik Fit who lent me a spanner to remove my new rear wheel.</p> <p>The old wheel was secured by Allen bolts, this one by standard hex nuts. I'd been daft and not thought about adding spanners to my commute kit ;-(</p> <p>Thanks Kwik Fit Murrayfield</p> <p>Hopefully I've earned a trouble free summer, but I can't help thinking that that run of bad luck could have been a whole lot worse..... </p>