…..thanks for not forgetting your pump, like I had

I can sympathise.

One year at sleepless forgot my lights, sleeping bag and inflatable bed. Thanks to M&S bedding sorted (double duvet and pillows), Blacks and the great guys from Exposure.

I’ve driven 40 miles to the start of a ride only to realise I’d forgotten my shoes. Didn’t fancy trying to ride round a red-route with M520’s and normal shoes so went home.

epicsteve I sympathise! That’s why there’s almost always a spare pare of flats and a spare helmet in the back of my car, just in case…..! 😉

As above, I have old spare shoes and helmet permanently in my car

uplink, I’ve found that spare pedals (Flats) are better, as anyone can use them, regardless of cleats etc. Most folks come on a ride trip in shoes they could probably ride in. Trainers, walking shoes etc. Has saved many a weekend!

CFH – you’re just one of life’s givers.

Better than being a “receiver”, Darcy….. 😈

😉

Nah, y’know, your generosity and consideration of those less fortunate or more absent minded than yourself is without limit.

Once turned up to do the high street with no chain on my bike 😳 AND 🙄

I got lost first time I went to Gisburn on my own. I had to be in work mid afternoon so after an hours frantic driving round I gave up and diverted to lee quarry on the way back to Manchester. Got to lee, pulled the bike out…..

No shoes. Waste of a morning

Turned up to go ice climbing- no crampons.
Likewise a 10 hour caving trip- no battery!

Idiot.

Mate of mine drove us out to Macclesfield forest to find he’d brought his roadie cleats… spare pair of flats in the car now.

Well I remembered everything this morning – bike, helmet, shoes, track pump, water, gloves, money, shock pump, etc, all got loaded into the car. Unfortunately for the first time ever my car’s immobiliser decided to play up and the car wouldn’t budge. It’s all still loaded in the car – I was sooo pissed off, I couldn’t be arsed to unload it.

Forgot shorts one day, cue a panicked trip to Tesco and £2.50 later I was the proud owner of some baggies that solved the problem. A friend forgot his helmet going to Innerleithen, so we sessioned some DH trails with him wearing a beanie for protection.

It’s all still loaded in the car

Heads out for a walk around South Croydon looking for a car full of goodies…

January last year my brother and a mate did nant yr aran. It was about minus 5 and he forgot his gloves. He rode with a pair of socks on his hands with thumb holes cut in.

When they got back to the car, guess who found his gloves after all? Better still, they were in his backpack so he carried them the whole way round*

*He’s going to kill me when he sees this- he never told his mate he had them all along.

Yep, good point, it might be in front garden, but I guess I ought to bring the gear in – I’ll do it now 😐

I once turned up for a bike ride WITH NO BIKE!!!

Actually it was in an art gallery and cycling wasn’t allowed. Which was just as well really because I think art should be enjoyed at a slower pace than cycling usually runs at.

You can’t enjoy Albrecht Dürer whilst riding around like a nutter, can you?

Here hare here.

Booze! I MUST have some booze!……………

Two mutual friends were going on a MTB holiday, met at airport, friend A was supposed to bring the bikes (packed and left at one house).

He forgot.

Went camping with the family in Brecon beacons once. Persuaded the gf to let me have a days riding while there. driving there, with the car full of riding gear (camelbak, spares, helmet etc) I suddenly realised I had forgotten my bike.

Two mutual friends

Are they still friends? 🙂

That’s one unhappy looking hare.

One of my mates once managed to go get to the river only to find that he’d forgotten his kayak.

Talking of bunny’s, or more specifically Bunnyhop’s… that reminds me of someone who turned up with no front wheel for a ride in the Peaks

I very very nearly forgot my shoes yesterday. Just got that ‘I’m sure there’s something I’ve forgotten’ feeling as I set off. SPD’s and Birkinstocks wouldn’t have been a dream ticket, I imagine

I got a call from my wife one Wednesday evening asking if/when i was going night riding. I said that i was a bit busy so probably wouldn;t make it out.
She then pointed out that i definitely wouldn’t having arrived home to find my front wheel in the middle of the driveway.

That’s one unhappy looking hare.

But isn’t it beautifully rendered?

It may just be constipated.

I met Chapaking for a ride round Rivi last month. A good run it was too. I set off to drive home and, en route, he kindly phoned me to tell me I’d left my camelbak (stuffed full of the usual gubbins) sat in the car park. D’oh!

One of our lot also set off on a return journey home with his helmet, gloves, shades etc sat on the top of the car

And then there was ‘The Incident’ where I arrived home from a night ride with one less bike on the rack than when i set off. But we don’t like to talk about that 😳

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sounds like a particularly good Saturday night out 😀

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Parked up at the lakes to find no shorts, I had baggie outers but no inners, it was a looooong ride, no way was I doing that without a chammy twixt arse and saddle. Phone workmate to google bike shops near my location, wait for biketreks to open, new inner shorts, sorted. Ride done disaster averted.

Binners also left his rucksack on the train going to Rivi when he swapped at Bolton *snitches* nearly caused a bomb alert had to go back to Bolton from Horwich to pick it up 😆

What an idiot. It’s people like that what are dragging this nation down country’s gone to the dogs it weren’t like this in my day we had tuppence for milk but we were happy.

Oi! Grass. I’d actually forgotten about that one. I can’t be expected to look after my bike AND my rucksack at the same time. That’s multi-tasking, that is. And I is not a girlie