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Last week was driving down the hill ready to shuttle some guys back to the start of a DH trail when I spotted a roadie shivering his way down the hill through a hail storm wearing just Lycra shorts, top and arm warmers. I decided to stop just ahead and offer the use of a my spare top and wind proof to the poor guy who had obviously been caught out by the sudden heavy and inclement weather.
He was very grateful to see me and took my top and contact details to pass me the top back later. I even said that I would go to pick it up so that he didn't have to worry about taking a taxi or anything.
So that was 1 week ago, not a word from the guy. Gutted, that was a 70€ Maloja thermal top and the sod hasn't had the decency to make a simple phone call.
Maybe I should have just left him to freeze at the side of the road.
From now on it's stuff em all!
There, I feel better now. I didn't even have to resort to the use of capital letters or masked swearing 😀
A jacket once in a while is worth the moral high ground imo.
Perhaps he died?
Or is this some kind of troll?
It's only a week. I'm well meaning but useless, could easily take me a week to get to the PO
Hopefully he hasn't had as accident or some other incident making more of a priority then returning a coat.
Hopefully that's the case and he's not being a twunt.
Next time get the details of the person concerned and save the unknowning wait.
Do you think he's fallen in love with you and is wearing it (or worse 😯 ) while knocking one off at home?
Perhaps he washed the note with your number on when he was washing the top?
He might've thought to order you two new ones to repay your kindness or something, and Wiggle were actually out of stock when the website claimed they were in or something - and took a week to email him to tell him.
The riding gods will however have credited your karma account with at least 10 awesome day points.
Plus one day someone may afford you a similarly kind gesture - what goes around comes around.
I'd still be pretty pissed off if I were in your shoes though to be fair.
Maybe he'll never ever wash it because it smells of you.
Never thought of the posting it back thing. Especially since I said that I'd collect it.
Maybe I should nip back up and check the snow at the side of the road for a frozen Italian roadie?
And deadlylarcy, THANKS! That thought is stuck in my head now! I think I'd rather do with the he's a twunt option over your suggestion.
Agrees with zoolander
Plus one day someone may afford you a similarly kind gesture - what goes around comes around.
This is true, over a year ago i was driving home from a ride when i passed a guy in a road race, his wheel was ****ed, so I lent him mine from my 29er. We fitted it and he set off again. Never saw the wheel again.However, just a week ago I was out on my road bike and got caught i a hailstorm. This fella stopped, to offer me a lift i thought, but instead he gave me a warmer top and windproofer. I think it was worth evn more than my wheel, so not only did karma reward me, it paid me with interest!
So [i]that's[/i] why roadies don't use camelbaks; so they can get "given" nice new clothes from strangers...
LoL @ charliemung
LoL @ charliemung
+1
I would have left him shivering.
Years ago I was running FIre XCs, and the bead on both tyres had stretched. I got through five tubes, all ripped off at the valve stem. I actually bought two at a shop mid - ride. Anyway, it got to four tubes and I decided my luck was not in. I split off from my riding buddies and headed back on the road, making sure to brake very gently, not load the tyres, and generally nurse the damn thing home without a flat.
Four miles from home, the inevitable happened.
As I stood by the side of the road wondering what the hell to do next, a family rode up. The dad hopped off his bike, asked if I needed anything and offered his (road) inner tube. It did the trick, and got me home. I made sure that, when I popped his many-patched spare tube in an envelope to send it back to him, it included four brand new tubes by way of thanks.
That roadie might have been a git, but don't get put off.
Mind you, if you see him again, rough him up and steal his Garmin.
bent_udder - MemberI popped his many-patched spare tube in an envelope to send it back to him, it included four brand new tubes by way of thanks.
Nice touch 🙂
@ CharlieMungus - You're not an Italian recently home from a holiday in Tenerife are you 😉
I could do with a few Karma points. So maybe I will reap the benefits next time I'm ready to stack it on a descent!
What is a 'Potdog'? Is it a thing?
Potdog - I'm pretty sure someone will bail you out. And I bet that bloke who nicked your top will get clotheslined by some stroppy Dail Mail reader at some point.
How old are you? I ask because if you're older than about 7 you've done very well not to have suffered betrayal and disappointment before. 🙂
Years ago Swindon Town played Tranmere in the playoffs and won. At the end of the game all of the Tranmere came onto the pitch and we thought a big ruckus was about to happen. Instead they wandered over, clapped and began swapping shirts. My brother handed over his spanking new £45 STFC shirt and copped a yellow Tranmere top. We looked at it in the car going home, it was minging, full of holes and about five seasons out of date. Oh how we lolled at him on the motorway home.
I was riding home a few days ago on my road bike, freezing my nuts off and some guy pulled over and lent me a really nice top. He told me to call him so we could be friends but there was a digit missing from the phone number. I was really gratefull that he gave me his top though, it's made a great rag for wiping down my rims.
I did a cwmcarn ride a year or so ago and found a guy stopped on the flat singletrack before the climb really starts. not exactly stranded in the middle of knowhere but he had punctured and didnt have a tube.
I offered him one as i tend to carry two anyway, he was v grateful and said that would be great and he would take my address and send me a box of tubes. I thought that was rediculous and he would just drop me over one or two. A couple of weeks later a massive box of 10-15 continental tubes from wiggle turns up and ive got a facebook friend request 🙂
I was genuinly shocked!
If you see a guy called Ben on a Commencal he deserves your Karma
Years ago Swindon Town played Tranmere in the playoffs and won. At the end of the game all of the Tranmere came onto the pitch and we thought a big ruckus was about to happen. Instead they wandered over, clapped and began swapping shirts. My brother handed over his spanking new £45 STFC shirt and copped a yellow Tranmere top. We looked at it in the car going home, it was minging, full of holes and about five seasons out of date. Oh how we lolled at him on the motorway home.
Wow, did he not know where Tranmere is??
Perhaps some goons with bowler hats grabbed him and burnt the piece of paper with your number on?
Ive done a similar thing. Some guy had forgotten his wallet and didnt have enough petrol to get back from Afan one weekend. So being a gent, I lent him a tenna, gave him my address with my number so he could post it back.
Difference is with this story, a few days later I got a £20 in the post with a thankyou note.
Made me feel good i can tell ya!
😆
I once stepped in to stop a couple of blokes smacking a couple of girls around outside a hotel in Crete.
Turned out the girls where up to no good and the blokes were plain clothed police. I
I got a good hiding plus 14 days in a Greek prison for interfering.
Ruined my holiday that did! 😯
Tranmere is??
Tranmere supporter in being a bit thick shocker. Why did he ever think a Swindon shirt had any value 🙄
You didn't initially mention he was Italian - a week is no time at all.
I got a good hiding plus 14 days in a Greek prison for interfering.
Crikey - did they not show you their ID? A bit rough - getting sent down for (what you assumed was) protecting some young girls. Especially so after the run of rapes on tourists Crete has had in recent years.
I had to get treated for scalding on my legs whilst at college in my teens. I bought a homeless man, begging outside a shop, some soup and a buttie from greenhalghes, he chucked the soup back at me shouting "I hate soup" and I got treated for minor burns.....
To be fair I hate soup too..... 😯
That sucks, I had a feeling when you were picking us up at the bottom of the run that it might have been the last you will see of it, after all he did want to buy it off you. Have you still got his 20€ 'deposit'?
Epic weeks riding, thanks once again... Chris.
Crikey - did they not show you their ID? A bit rough - getting sent down for (what you assumed was) protecting some young girls. Especially so after the run of rapes on tourists Crete has had in recent years.
They showed me there id once they had smacked me around a bit. All I did was get between them and the girls. They also showed me there guns, bundled me into the back of a police car then took me for a drive into the Greek countryside! Fortunatley they took me to the police station and not a shallow grave.
Even with hindsight it was the right thing to do and I wouldnt do anything differently.