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IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Quite a few of these are bang on but (maybe its because its before lunch) the food-related ones really resonate with me!
"Take enough food and drink with you"
I've hit the wall once and vowed never again!
"You can eat SO much more after a ride than you ever thought possible"
Touring got expensive for me because I was having breakfast, two lunches and 3 course dinners every day =D! The hunger...
And don't forget second breakfast!
I have hit the wall so many times my face actually comes out of the back of my head.
It never gets easier, you just go faster
Hmm, never noticed that one!
"It never gets easier, you just go faster"
The twenty-fifth (or 3a) is presumably "don't rest your bike on the rear mech when you've taken off the back wheel".
@wingpig Yup, I see they've adopted that frankly bizarre aversion to turning their bike upside down in order to fix a puncture.
"The Rules" were mildly amusing at one point in time, but I find them pretty tedious now.
TBF I try to avoid turning my bike over to save marking my levers and leather saddle. Nothing to do with "The Rules".
"TBF I try to avoid turning my bike over to save marking my levers and leather saddle"
Yeah, I'd not do that 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!
Number 11: "Join a club, it’s fun!"
I've tried this and it wasn't all that much fun!
My experience is that I have more fun cycling by myself than chain-ganging through East Lothian!
Cycling for me is an escape and clubs are just a way of constraining the sense of freedom!
The twenty-fifth (or 3a) is presumably "don't rest your bike on the rear mech when you've taken off the back wheel".
I'm in the "turn-it-upside-down" camp too! Give me a scuffed saddle over wonky gears any day!
East Lothian is lovely by the way! Wasn't taking a dig at it!
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. :-)
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.
Bromptons can stand up with one or both wheels out.
Trikes don't need the back wheels take off if you get a puncture.
"Trikes don't need the back wheels take off if you get a puncture."
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.
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