Strange places you've repaired your bike.

[HobbesOnTour]

Not particularly strange, but memorable nonetheless.

What a fantastic story!!!

 

[Foghat]

What a fantastic story!!!

Thanks!

It always pleases me when I think back to that escapade and the people who helped me out.

 

[HobbesOnTour]

Thanks!

It always pleases me when I think back to that escapade and the people who helped me out.

There's a lot of layers to that story;
First of all, there's the fact that most people want to help, something that's easy to forget, even if all the help is not the best!
Secondly, there's the thrill of meeting the very people who made your bike in the first place! I'd be willing to bet, it was a big deal for them too!
As small businesses close or amalgamate, as manufacturing goes abroad and the disconnect between maker and user grows for the benefit of neither, I believe.
Finally, it's just a great story - accident, disaster, potential solution, even bigger disaster, bigger problem - all solved and with grace and some style. Inspiration for all us in there.

 

[Foghat]

Secondly, there's the thrill of meeting the very people who made your bike in the first place! I'd be willing to bet, it was a big deal for them too!
As small businesses close or amalgamate, as manufacturing goes abroad and the disconnect between maker and user grows for the benefit of neither, I believe.

Absolutely - they were pleased to see a frame coming 'home' from afar, albeit briefly, and it made them all the more keen to solve the misfortune of someone who'd made the effort to search them out and had been putting their handbuilt product to good use!

 

[Blue Hills]

Removing the rear cassette proved to be the most difficult (and painful) which led to the investment in a fibre-fix spoke. .

Sometimes wondered about getting one of those.

Do you rate them hobbes? Any issues?

 

[Bromptonaut]

More than once repaired a front wheel puncture on a Brompton while standing in door vestibule of a train from Northampton.

 

[Andy in Germany]

More than once repaired a front wheel puncture on a Brompton while standing in door vestibule of a train from Northampton.

"More than once?"

 

[Bromptonaut]

"More than once?"

Daily commuter but too far from station for it to be a year round daily ride so I drove. The Brompton stayed in car overnight and occasionally I'd pull it out and find a flat tyre.

Front is easily repairable with bike sat up 'on its haunches' and leaned against train's door vestibule wall. Matter of pride to have completed the job and resumed my seat before first stop at Wolverton.

If it was rear then it got left concealed in car boot and repair was done at home.

 

[Drago]

In a cell ar a police custody block.

 

[I like Skol]

In a cell ar a police custody block.

I'm guessing you weren't actually incarcerated at the time.

 

[Drago]

Correct!

When the custody block at Brackley (known to the locals as Crackley) was closed 15 or so years ago, we used them for a while for storage and as a workshop.

 

[presta]

Not a strange location for the repair (a pavement in Tring), but the shoe shop was a strange place to buy the replacement tyre. I arrived in town with an urgent need for one, asked the first cyclist I saw, and that was where he directed me.