http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "24 things we wish we knew when we started cycling" en Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:13:35 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212929 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:35:04 +0000 wingpig 212929@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"Trikes don't need the back wheels take off if you get a puncture."</em></blockquote></p> <p>If you're only patching then you can do that with non-stubbed-axle things, too. A couple of months ago I forgot to go to my locker to get my keys on my way down to the car park to fix a puncture so just fished the relevant section of tube out, which was fortunately where I could get at it without having to rotate the locked wheel. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212928 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:25:01 +0000 wee folding bike 212928@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bromptons can stand up with one or both wheels out. </p> <p>Trikes don't need the back wheels take off if you get a puncture. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212921 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:58:24 +0000 amir 212921@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On the Tour of East Lothian this weekend, all of my 4 flats were repaired by inverting the bike. The first one had a lucky escape. Although the bike was placed on nice soft heather (after ploughing through the snow ridge at the side of the road near the Redstone Rigg summit), I subsequently noticed that I'd missed placing the saddle on a pile of excrement by just millimetres. It still wouldn't have been as bad as 2015 though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212917 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:37:31 +0000 PS 212917@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can see your point steveo, but I tend to get a scuffed saddle from (I presume) leaning my bike against walls and such like anyway. Life is so much easier once your bike gains that lived-in look. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212900 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:55:59 +0000 ivangrozni 212900@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>East Lothian is lovely by the way! Wasn't taking a dig at it! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212899 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:52:56 +0000 ivangrozni 212899@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em><strong>Number 11: </strong> "Join a club, it’s fun!"</em></p> <p>I've tried this and it wasn't all that much fun!</p> <p>My experience is that I have more fun cycling by myself than chain-ganging through East Lothian! </p> <p>Cycling for me is an escape and clubs are just a way of constraining the sense of freedom!</p> <p><em>The twenty-fifth (or 3a) is presumably "don't rest your bike on the rear mech when you've taken off the back wheel".</em> </p> <p>I'm in the "turn-it-upside-down" camp too! Give me a scuffed saddle over wonky gears any day! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212896 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:20:57 +0000 steveo 212896@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah, I'd not do <em>that </em> to my bike. Whats the point in repairing the puncture if you're now miles away on a single speed with an single enormous gear! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212894 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:14:44 +0000 wingpig 212894@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"TBF I try to avoid turning my bike over to save marking my levers and leather saddle"</em></blockquote><br /> <blockquote> </blockquote><br /> <blockquote> </blockquote><br /> <blockquote> </blockquote><br /> <blockquote> </blockquote><br /> <blockquote> </blockquote><br /> <blockquote> </blockquote><br /> <blockquote> </blockquote><br /> <blockquote> </blockquote><br /> <blockquote> </blockquote><br /> <blockquote> </blockquote><br /> <blockquote> </blockquote><br /> I realise a seat can easily be more expensive than a rear mech, but it's presumably less easily mortally damaged? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212891 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:57:22 +0000 steveo 212891@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>TBF I try to avoid turning my bike over to save marking my levers and leather saddle. Nothing to do with "The Rules". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212889 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:47:49 +0000 PS 212889@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig Yup, I see they've adopted that frankly bizarre aversion to turning their bike upside down in order to fix a puncture. </p> <p>"The Rules" were mildly amusing at one point in time, but I find them pretty tedious now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212886 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:25:57 +0000 wingpig 212886@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The twenty-fifth (or 3a) is presumably "don't rest your bike on the rear mech when you've taken off the back wheel". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212885 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:25:50 +0000 acsimpson 212885@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"It never gets easier, you just go faster"</em></p> <p><a href="http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#10">That's rule number 10.</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212878 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:05:10 +0000 Min 212878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And don't forget second breakfast!</p> <p>I have hit the wall so many times my face actually comes out of the back of my head.</p> <p><em>It never gets easier, <strong>you just go faster</strong></em></p> <p>Hmm, never noticed that one! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16095#post-212838 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:49:36 +0000 ivangrozni 212838@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://roadcyclinguk.com/riding/24-things-wish-knew-started-cycling.html?utm_campaign=newsletter_20160224&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter_rcuk#3zLDYBvMmpgepEWO.97">http://roadcyclinguk.com/riding/24-things-wish-knew-started-cycling.html?utm_campaign=newsletter_20160224&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter_rcuk#3zLDYBvMmpgepEWO.97</a></p> <p>Quite a few of these are bang on but (maybe its because its before lunch) the food-related ones really resonate with me!</p> <p>"Take enough food and drink with you"<br /> I've hit the wall once and vowed never again!</p> <p>"You can eat SO much more after a ride than you ever thought possible"<br /> Touring got expensive for me because I was having breakfast, two lunches and 3 course dinners every day =D! The hunger... </p>