The kindness of strangers

damnedinflames
damnedinflames Posts: 35
edited January 2009 in Commuting chat
I got dumped off my bike last night when my chain snapped :shock:
Mashed knee and elbow and brusied my pride but otherwise fine.

A passing motorist stopped and made sure I was alright and offered help if I couldn't make it home under my own steam.

She mentioned she cycle commutes as well - so on the off chance that your reading this and helped out a bashful beardie in sheffield last night I just want to say thanks :D

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  • girv73
    girv73 Posts: 842
    I was out on a training ride last Sunday. The weather was crappy and I'd stopped by the side of the road to re-secure my pump that had worked loose. Bloke in a car, with a MTB strapped to the back, stopped to see if I was OK. Cheers mate :)
    Today is a good day to ride
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    When I've come off recently (ice once, road rage once) I've observed that most motorists slow down in order to drive round me.
  • hondafanatic
    hondafanatic Posts: 213
    Always Tyred wrote:
    When I've come off recently (ice once, road rage once) I've observed that most motorists slow down in order to drive round me.

    I'd take that personally if i were you :lol:
    <insert witty comment here>

    Also, I have calculated my FCN as 12...although I have no idea what that actually means.
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    Always Tyred wrote:
    When I've come off recently (ice once, road rage once) I've observed that most motorists slow down in order to drive round me.

    no, they slowed down to laugh at you
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    spen666 wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    When I've come off recently (ice once, road rage once) I've observed that most motorists slow down in order to drive round me.

    no, they slowed down to laugh at you
    I can't rule that out.

    Some seem genuinely annoyed that I selfishly choose to fall off right in the middle of the road, causing them to have to slow down (some of them).
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Always Tyred wrote:
    spen666 wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    When I've come off recently (ice once, road rage once) I've observed that most motorists slow down in order to drive round me.

    no, they slowed down to laugh at you
    I can't rule that out.

    Some seem genuinely annoyed that I selfishly choose to fall off right in the middle of the road, causing them to have to slow down (some of them).

    You inconsiderate b****rd. Didn't you realise they were going somewhere? I mean really. Some people.
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    spen666 wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    When I've come off recently (ice once, road rage once) I've observed that most motorists slow down in order to drive round me.

    no, they slowed down to laugh at you
    I can't rule that out.

    Some seem genuinely annoyed that I selfishly choose to fall off right in the middle of the road, causing them to have to slow down (some of them).

    You inconsiderate b****rd. Didn't you realise they were going somewhere? I mean really. Some people.
    Well I did peel myself of the tarmac quite slowly. Someone might have missed some lights that they otherwise might have hammered through on amber.

    Back to the OP - some people really are nice; I had a cyclist help me inflate a tyre with a pump that chose that day to stop working, for about 20 minutes. I know I was late for work, so I assume he was too. I've also been taxied home from a mechanically induced tarmac-plastering in deepest Devon as well, about 20 miles each way.

    Must just be the townies who are bathdards.
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    Always Tyred wrote:
    ...

    Must just be the townies who are bathdards.
    Nah, just the Scots, The Welsh, The Irish, The French, The cockneys, The Rest of Europe, the Americans North and South), The Brummies, The Africans, The Asians, The Australasians, the Scousers,
    The West Country Folk, The East Anglians, The Mancs, the Yorkies, The Lancastrians, The mackems


    and anyone else who I've missed out......



    PS I hear those from Mars are also bathdards (well the one's I've met were)
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  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...Spen...oh how we appreciate and admire your well balanced views on the human race... :lol::lol::lol:
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    ChrisLS wrote:
    ...Spen...oh how we appreciate and admire your well balanced views on the human race... :lol::lol::lol:

    I must offer my profound apologies, I realise that my earlier post was inappropriate....


    I accidentally omitted to include those from the South East, The Home counties, Mackems and Smoggies in that list.


    Apologies for the omission and any offence it caused
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    spen666 wrote:
    ChrisLS wrote:
    ...Spen...oh how we appreciate and admire your well balanced views on the human race... :lol::lol::lol:

    I must offer my profound apologies, I realise that my earlier post was inappropriate....


    I accidentally omitted to include those from the South East, The Home counties, Mackems and Smoggies in that list.


    Apologies for the omission and any offence it caused

    You forgot lawyers and politicians.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Always Tyred wrote:
    spen666 wrote:
    ChrisLS wrote:
    ...Spen...oh how we appreciate and admire your well balanced views on the human race... :lol::lol::lol:

    I must offer my profound apologies, I realise that my earlier post was inappropriate....


    I accidentally omitted to include those from the South East, The Home counties, Mackems and Smoggies in that list.


    Apologies for the omission and any offence it caused

    You forgot lawyers and politicians.

    Oi.

    A very kind lady on the corner of Embankment and Battersea Bridge asked if I was ok when I went ar&se over t*it a few weeks ago. This means that townies/Londoners/folk from the South East are good eggs.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    I note with interest that you have not defended lawyers or politicians.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Always Tyred wrote:
    I note with interest that you have not defended lawyers or politicians.

    I said "Oi".


    (That's as much as I could come up with, I'm afraid.)
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    Always Tyred wrote:
    spen666 wrote:
    ChrisLS wrote:
    ...Spen...oh how we appreciate and admire your well balanced views on the human race... :lol::lol::lol:

    I must offer my profound apologies, I realise that my earlier post was inappropriate....


    I accidentally omitted to include those from the South East, The Home counties, Mackems and Smoggies in that list.


    Apologies for the omission and any offence it caused

    You forgot lawyers and politicians.

    I assumed they lived somewhere - probably in one of the areas I mentioned
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    What about Estate Agents?
  • pedalo delgado
    pedalo delgado Posts: 25
    thought chris referred to the 'human' race
    so why mention lawyers, politicians, estate agents ?
    oh - you forgot surveyors (home variety)
    subhuman all :-) (mostly*)
    (and yes I do work in da lawr lol)

    * counts as disclaimer ?

    .
    Food Chain Eight
    Nine If A Beardy

    But I Don't Race :-)

    I have a silver bike with plastic bits and a bell !

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