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[GuyBoden]

Last week, on a bright sunny day, I stopped and offered one of my spare inner tubes to a Sky Lycra clad lad on an expensive carbon fiber Italian job with a puncture, but he declined and said he'd phone his girlfriend to pick him up. Hopefully, he'll practice changing his inner tubes at home before he goes out on another ride.........

 

[Racing roadkill]

You do seem to meet some spectacularly rude people with low social skills, don't you.

They seem to get the arse, that all my bikes and kit, don't cost as much as their shorts, but I still manage to do many thousands of miles every year.

 

[Racing roadkill]

They know all that?

Some do, some don't. I don't give a monkey's either way.

 

[Dave Davenport]

I offered to help a stranded rider, who had a p*ncture last week ( and didn't seem to have any tools / a clue). His response to my offer? "Jog on, what would you know about fixing a proper bike". I was in the middle of a 110 mile ride, on my trusty Triban 520. I left him to it.

Did that really happen?

 

[kiriyama]

Mini pump, tyre levers, and a spare tube. Wrap a bit of electrical tape around and bung it in my jersey pocket (backpack if I'm commuting) need to throw in a couple of those self adhesive patches when I get round to buying them. Minimum requirement, walking home I's not an option, I'd rather stuff my tyres with grass than ring someone!

 

[BalkanExpress]

Wait for the team car. Isn't that what we all do?

(Please note this is a sarcastic post.)

But wasn't holding his wheel in the air so the car will drive straight past him

Returning to your more serious point, here in Belgium the AA equivalent "Touring" now do a cycling policy. It seems mainly aimed at e-bikes but a quick glance suggests that yes they will come out and sort punctures and other mechanicals.

 

[Smokin Joe]

The one essential skill any cyclist should learn straight away is how to deal with a puncture. Of all the types of vehicle on the road by far the most common cause of a breakdown must be a puncture on a bicycle tyre. If you drove 40,000 miles per annum and got one puncture every year you'd consider yourself plagued with misfortune. If you only got one every four thousand on a bike you'd think your ship had come in.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Did that really happen?

Yes you valve. In the box with you.

 

[Racing roadkill]

The one essential skill any cyclist should learn straight away is how to deal with a puncture. Of all the types of vehicle on the road by far the most common cause of a breakdown must be a puncture on a bicycle tyre. If you drove 40,000 miles per annum and got one puncture every year you'd consider yourself plagued with misfortune. If you only got one every four thousand on a bike you'd think your ship had come in.

But they don't, it doesn't seem to 'be their problem'. It sure as he'll isn't mine.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Mini pump, tyre levers, and a spare tube. Wrap a bit of electrical tape around and bung it in my jersey pocket (backpack if I'm commuting) need to throw in a couple of those self adhesive patches when I get round to buying them. Minimum requirement, walking home I's not an option, I'd rather stuff my tyres with grass than ring someone!

One of a dying breed I fear.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Trolls are easily dealt with on here (thankfully)

 

[Pale Rider]

I did dread getting a puncture on my Orbea, because I'd seen my (male) cycling buddy struggle to get the tyre back on. So I felt that I could end up with a tireless wheel in the middle of nowhere one day. I bought myself a VAR tyre lever, but touch wood I haven't needed to use it yet.

When @Accy cyclist had a puncture at the top of the Trough of Bowland, one of us - might have been @Oldfentiger - produced a VAR tyre lever.

@ColinJ's mate Bill used it, but it appeared to get stuck between tyre and rim.

I suspect that may have been due to Bill's inexperience with that type of lever, rather than a design fault.

Moral of the story is have a play with the VAR before having to deploy it in anger.

http://www.sjscycles.com/instructions/var/var_tyre_lever_instructions.pdf

 

[Racing roadkill]

When @Accy cyclist had a puncture at the top of the Trough of Bowland, one of us - might have been @Oldfentiger - produced a VAR tyre lever.

@ColinJ's mate Bill used it, but it appeared to get stuck between tyre and rim.

I suspect that may have been due to Bill's inexperience with that type of lever, rather than a design fault.

Moral of the story is have a play with the VAR before having to deploy it in anger.

http://www.sjscycles.com/instructions/var/var_tyre_lever_instructions.pdf

Very true, especially with cold fingers.

 

[mjr]

Of all the types of vehicle on the road by far the most common cause of a breakdown must be a puncture on a bicycle tyre.

Surely not! I see the "fuel doctor" van far more often than I see bikes with flat tyres and bikes are pretty common here so I think the most common cause is an inability to tell the green and black fuel pumps/caps apart

 

[Racing roadkill]

Surely not! I see the "fuel doctor" van far more often than I see bikes with flat tyres and bikes are pretty common here so I think the most common cause is an inability to tell the green and black fuel pumps/caps apart

Sooooo many misfueld cars. You've got to wonder what they're thinking.