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Cycling Etiquette: Let down by my fellow roadies!

  • by Lee Rodgers
  • Posted on February 23, 2015

The back had been playing up again over the weekend so I took Sunday off,…

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7 responses to “Cycling Etiquette: Let down by my fellow roadies!”

  1. Andrew Avatar
    Andrew
    February 23, 2015

    it comes back around.

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    1. crankpunk Avatar
      crankpunk
      February 23, 2015

      it does indeed…

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  2. sam (@steampie) Avatar
    sam (@steampie)
    February 23, 2015

    Amen. I’ll never understand this. I once passed a guy on my commute home (in London) – he was on the edge of a very heavily travelled cycle path standing next to his upended bike. I stopped and asked if he needed help; turns out he was in the same predicament as you. I had both extra tubes and a patch kit, and he told me that I was the first person to stop for 45 minutes. WTF indeed. And I think it’s even more egregious out on a rural road that is frequented by other cyclists. Pretty depressing if I’m honest…

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    1. crankpunk Avatar
      crankpunk
      February 23, 2015

      Cheers for the comment Sam. Yeah my vitriol was intended to be a little tongue in cheek but actually, looking back, it was very real. Guess these aren’t the kind of folk you want walking past if you’re getting mugged either…!

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    atlaz
    February 23, 2015

    It’s a bit crappy I admit, but going out with dried patches… tut. I’m also in the category of asking people if they need help. Over summer I was in the alps doing a long MTB ride with friends and one got a puncture heading into a bike park run. I stopped with him and other than one passer by, nobody asked if we needed anything. Half way through the fix, a beautiful blonde girl got a puncture just past us and within 30 seconds of taking off her helmet had half a dozen people trying to help her.

    The moral of the story? Don’t be a tattooed bloke on a road bike, be a cute blonde girl on a DH bike. Probably not helpful I know.

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  4. stevenmichaelshuman Avatar
    stevenmichaelshuman
    February 23, 2015

    At least it was warm… warm-ish? I have flatted more than once in -8 C temperatures & yes, certain people still roll by. Once and a while, people are kind and do ask, and I know I do (which sometimes gets surprised/are you an axe murderer? looks), but common manners and courtesy seem to taken a hit in recent times. Unfortunately, there isn’t panacea to fix this to my knowledge.

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  5. Jim Avatar
    Jim
    February 23, 2015

    I encountered an opposite situation a few years ago coming back into town. There was road construction so the road was reduced to a single lane and I road with the traffic. I flatted in a patch of gravel. No mind I thought, easy enough to fix. The valve stem in my spare was damaged making the “new” tube useless. I called my wife and asked for an assist as I had tem miles to the house. I sat in the shade on the side of the road near a corner waiting. After a few minutes, a car pulls near and the “gentleman” asks if I was ok. “No problem, I’m waiting for a ride, thanks” I say. What followed was a mystery as to what set him off, but I endured a profanity laced tirade ending with “and I though cyclists were supposed to be friendly.” I just looked at him, shocked. He got back in his car, and screams some other profane phrase and drives off.

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