She hadn't noticed - !?

[simongt]

Whilst walking between shops yesterday I noticed, or rather heard a young lass going past me - on the road - on a bike that obviously had a puncture. It happened that I was going to cross the road where she'd been held up by some red lights. Being diplomatic, I said to her - 'You know you've a puncture in your rear wheel - ?'
And she HADN'T REALISED - ! She thanked me and promptly got off the bike and wheeled it for the rest of her journey, but how can you not notice that your rear tyre is completely flat - ? !

 

[Apollonius]

Maybe not the day's biggest fail. I got to my usual Wednesday afternoon exercise class and discovered, while changing from cycling shoes to trainers, my bib shorts were on inside-out! Had to make a quick excuse and head for the toilets for a complete strip-off. It wasn't until I saw the gripper strips on the outside I realised.

 

[screenman]

Only yesterday I pulled my clean overalls out of the back of the car and put them on whilst working at one of my customers, an hour, yes 60 whole minutes later I noticed a sock hanging off of the Velcro bit on the collar of the overalls, they were obviously in the washing machine together. Now this bit might just get to you, last week I walked around for much the same amount of time with a pair of the wife's black lacy knickers attached. Nobody noticed, or at least nobody pointed them out, there was for some reason a lot of smiling people around that morning though.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Maybe not the day's biggest fail. I got to my usual Wednesday afternoon exercise class and discovered, while changing from cycling shoes to trainers, my bib shorts were on inside-out! Had to make a quick excuse and head for the toilets for a complete strip-off. It wasn't until I saw the gripper strips on the outside I realised.

Yup, been there. I have a few BBB cycling shorts with orange pads. I once dressed in the dark not to wake up the wife before my morning training ride and obligatory coffee and newspaper stop. Three hours later and with plenty of interaction with others, I arrived home to see myself in the bedroom mirror with orange pad on the outside. No wonder civvies think cyclists are dorks.

 

[fossyant]

It's like, why drive a car with a flat tyre... same...

 

[ColinJ]

It's like, why drive a car with a flat tyre... same...

Indeed - LINK!

PS Spooky - my sister rang to say that she has only just got home from work because a huge nail had punctured one of her car's tyres! (She spotted it before setting off.)

 

[ayceejay]

The dressing in the dark thing. Yep I did that I put on a pair of the wife's Yfronts instead of my own, I did realize but I was out the door 5 am. Anyway as luck would have it this was the day of the medical for my new job. We did the weight, the eyes and the chest and then I lay on the couch. The doctor tapped and prodded and then said "Are you married?" Now it could be that he intuitively understood the situation but just in case I dressed more quickly than was absolutely necessary and fled.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

'You know you've a puncture in your rear wheel - ?'
And she HADN'T REALISED - ! She thanked me and promptly got off the bike and wheeled it for the rest of her journey, but how can you not notice that your rear tyre is completely flat - ? !

Maybe it was only flat at the bottom and she could only see the top of the tyre?

 

[Tin Pot]

What the..?

Words fail me. This thread is the twilight zone. Normal People don't have these problems.

 

[Accy cyclist]

The baboon arse look.

Scary!!

 

[sheffgirl]

Kind of opposite issue here.There's one part of the trail where I always think I've got a puncture, the path surface is so rippled it feels like I'm riding on a flat knobbly tyre.

 

[Globalti]

Before we had a refurb and a new cleaning regime our office toilets were gopping so I was in the habit of laying a line of bog paper on each side of the seat before sitting down to catch up on some texting. One fine day I walked back into the office and heard a fit of giggles behind me from one of the women; looked back and realised that a length of toilet paper had got hitched up and was hanging from the waistband of my trousers. That was a little embarrassing.

 

[Arjimlad]

Scary!!

At last ... that may explain the Khardashian woman.

 

[KneesUp]

I know someone who crashed her bike into the back wheel of her friends bike at the bottom of her road, and then carried on riding for 3 miles to her destination. On locking her bike up she noticed the front tyre was completely flat - and as she tells it, it was then she remembered a "hissing noise" when she crashed. So presumably she'd ridden three miles with a flat *front* tyre and not noticed.

 

[si_c]

Saw someone riding the other day with two tires which I couldn't decide were flat or just almost completely deflated and a rusty chain and cassette. Some people clearly aren't that interested in whether it's actually working properly versus just about moving.