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I'd not long been set off from home in Cirencester this morning, driving to work, when I saw a chap pushing his bike along the road in the opposite direction. I slowed and wound down my window to check he was okay and if he needed a lift.
Anyhoo, long story short, he was supposed to be riding to Leicester(!) to pick up a minibus-cum-mobile-science-lab (he's a teacher). He'd punctured early on, used his spare tube, punctured again and discovered that the glue in his repair kit had gone off.
Well, I couldn't really take him to Leicester, but I did take him and his bike back to mine where he was able to make use of a track pump and a spare tube of mine, and I dug out another tube and some repair glue just in case. He gave me a tenner for it all, which I didn't really want, but he was pretty insistent.
So, Ben, good luck, hope the rest of the journey is less eventful.
I'd woken up in a bit of a foul mood as well, and being able to help someone out has cheered me up no end. It's nice to be nice, innit?
🙂
Sorry to put a dampner on it but I think you just aided a meths cook
good work IHN
Well, I couldn't really take him to Leicester, but I did take him and his bike back to mine where he was able to make use of a track pump and a spare tube of mine
Is this a euphemism?
[i]Is this a euphemism?[/i]
Not at all. I just let him in my back gate and then let him pump away.
I was more concerned about the minibus-cum-mobile.
🙂
good stuff, I try to help out when I can but not sure I'd have been [i]quite[/i] that generous
Prolly a serial killer and van was a mobile killing machine!
Well done for helping him though, feels good.
I just let him in my back gate and then let him pump away
And you only charged him a tenner? 😯
[i]And you only charged him a tenner?[/i]
Well, no, I got his used rubber too, because with a bit of TLC I'll be able to use it again myself.
Found a cyclist in distress with a broken chain 30 mins into a 3 hr ride last night, talk about luck, had only opened a packet from CRC 10 mins before I left home with a powerlink that i needed and a spare one which is now gone!!! and only ordered 22 hrs earlier off CRC so well done CRC for giving 2 people a spin out last night!!!!Does feel good to help someone!!!
[i]giving 2 people a spin out last night[/i]
That's disgusting, we don't need that kind of filth on here thanks.
Sorry about the filth!! was meant to say when i found the other cyclist I unzipped my zip, got it out he slid it in and we both rode like mad for a while ,then went our seperate ways!!!
Ah, that's a lovely tale 🙂
Found a cyclist in distress with a broken chain
Preying on the vulnerable - disgusting. Do you just cruise around looking for cyclists in trouble?
A man's got to have a hobby.
I must have that killer look about me. Was heading in deeside road in te van and offered a fella pushin a road bike with a flat tire in full cyclin attire a lift back to town. Wasnt keen . Oh well.
On the other hand ive been running along with my bile and the local bus has offered me a lift back to town. Great when your on the fixie and mind a tube and a pump but no 15mm for your wheel nuts . Doh
Not really preying grum its taken me best part of 7 yrs to find one!!! and he left me with a smile on his face!!!
I seem to have stumbled upon InnuendoTrackWorld.
bile? 🙂
Good work nettles.
pictured below 😀minibus-cum-mobile-science-lab
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[i]Punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet ?
When in this charming car
This charming man
Why pamper life's complexity
When the leather runs smooth
On the passenger seat ?
I would go out tonight
But I haven't got a stitch to wear
This man said "it's gruesome
That someone so handsome should care"
Ah ! A jumped-up pantry boy
Who never knew his place
He said "return the ring"
He knows so much about these things
He knows so much about these things [/i]