Thanks for asking

[barrymanifold]

Three miles in to my ride to day i ran over a chunk of metal front and back punctures good sized hole in my rear tyre .Luckly i carry 2 tubes so while i am changing them on the cycle track on the rainford by pass a total of seven cyclists passed and asked was i ok and did i need anything . In a world that everything and everybody passes by at a million miles an hour it so nice to have found a pastime that fills you with a sense of camaraderie thanks again guys.

 

[Peteaud]

Glad to hear there are still some decent people about.

 

[lavoisier]

Glad to hear there are still some decent people about.

+1

 

[Gary E]

I always stop and ask whether I'm on the bike or in the car. Gave a lad and his bike a lift home earlier in the year as he wasn't carrying a spare...... or a pump.......or a patch

 

[biggs682]

well done guys

 

[derrick]

Had that a few times myself, i would always stop and ask.

 

[Saluki]

We always stop and ask if we see a cyclist off their bike whether we are in a car or on our bikes. We have had several people stop and ask if we are OK when we have been at the roadside either fixing a p-thing or looking perplexed at a map.
Cyclists are the friendliest bunch of people, I think.

 

[RWright]

I will even ask car drivers that have flats if they need help when I am riding my bike. It is kind of fun to watch them jump in surprise because they normally don't hear me or notice me riding up on them until I say something, which I don't do until I am very close to them.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I will even ask car drivers that have flats if they need help when I am riding my bike. It is kind of fun to watch them jump in surprise because they normally don't hear me or notice me riding up on them until I say something, which I don't do until I am very close to them.

+1

 

[byegad]

Sneaking up on people and deliberately waiting until you are right on them to speak is plain silly. I get numpties on DFs who try to pull this trick on me as I pootle along on my trike. As I have three mirrors I usually know they are there but there's one 'regular' who gets close then bellows Hello! in my right ear. Next time I see him coming I'm going to retaliate! With a well timed hawk and spit over my right shoulder, followed by a 'I didn't know you were there!'

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I will always check a lone cyclists is OK. Don't alway for more than one, but a lone cyclist I will. Even to the point where I have inadvertently checked a cyclist is OK only to find they had stopped at the side of the road to take a phone call.
But is also goes both ways and that is what I love about cycling; on Thursday I was having big problems with my asthma whilst cycling home from college and put blunty was going very slowly up hill (made worse by college books weighing me down). Another cyclist flew passed me on the hill, looked back, realised there was a problem and dropped alongside me to check I was OK. Turned out he was asthmatic as well!

It is good to be reminded that there are nice total strangers out there!

 

[Harry_Palmer79]

I always stop and ask whether I'm on the bike or in the car. Gave a lad and his bike a lift home earlier in the year as he wasn't carrying a spare...... or a pump.......or a patch

That happened to me last week, though nobody stopped... maybe next time?!

 

[RWright]

Sneaking up on people and deliberately waiting until you are right on them to speak is plain silly.

I never sneak (hard to do wearing hi-viz) and it is rather rude to yell at people from a distance.

 

[RWright]

I will always check a lone cyclists is OK. Don't alway for more than one, but a lone cyclist I will. Even to the point where I have inadvertently checked a cyclist is OK only to find they had stopped at the side of the road to take a phone call.
But is also goes both ways and that is what I love about cycling; on Thursday I was having big problems with my asthma whilst cycling home from college and put blunty was going very slowly up hill (made worse by college books weighing me down). Another cyclist flew passed me on the hill, looked back, realised there was a problem and dropped alongside me to check I was OK. Turned out he was asthmatic as well!

It is good to be reminded that there are nice total strangers out there!

I was leaving a residential neighborhood in my pick up truck and saw a bike lying on the curb and a middle age lady sitting in the grass. I didn't immediately think to stop but backed up to make sure she was ok. She was fine but laughed and thanked me for checking. She had just made a nice climb and was taking a breather. The way she had laid her bicycle down at the curb looked a little strange so I thought better safe than sorry.