The Cycling community will never Cease to amaze me!
charlieonix
Posts: 27
Well I was out on my Tuesday training ride with some friends.... went up Monument hill in Wellington (Which the tour will climb on stage 4) about a mile or so up the road, starting the climb I got stopped by a chap in a car asking if I knew where the Tour was heading locally.
Having ridden the tour ride on sunday I stopped for a quick chat and left my friends to head on up the climb. Mentioned Id done the ride and the best place to see it locally was at the top of said hill as it gets twisty and stupidly steep, if its wet it should be a great place to see some fun riding!
Left him to it and went off up the hill, clatter clatter snap and my mech hanger snapped putting it thru my brand new 50mm Carbon Dura Ace's spoke and snapping the chain....
Said chap saw this stopped and reversed up with a tool kit, when i pointed out the mech had gone ping, he put my bike in the car, took me to the top of the hill to tell my friends what had happened and then drove me the 10 mile journey home!!!!!!!!!
What an amazing chap! I live in completely the wrong direction from his journey AND he still had 40 odd miles to get home!
Cheers Paul!!!
Im just working out if I can be back at the top of that climb to look for him with a bottle of something to say thank you as the tour passes!
Having ridden the tour ride on sunday I stopped for a quick chat and left my friends to head on up the climb. Mentioned Id done the ride and the best place to see it locally was at the top of said hill as it gets twisty and stupidly steep, if its wet it should be a great place to see some fun riding!
Left him to it and went off up the hill, clatter clatter snap and my mech hanger snapped putting it thru my brand new 50mm Carbon Dura Ace's spoke and snapping the chain....
Said chap saw this stopped and reversed up with a tool kit, when i pointed out the mech had gone ping, he put my bike in the car, took me to the top of the hill to tell my friends what had happened and then drove me the 10 mile journey home!!!!!!!!!
What an amazing chap! I live in completely the wrong direction from his journey AND he still had 40 odd miles to get home!
Cheers Paul!!!
Im just working out if I can be back at the top of that climb to look for him with a bottle of something to say thank you as the tour passes!
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if the guy had been a true cyclist, he would never have stopped you on a climb...0
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What a decent guy, there are still some left out there. Hope you find him with that bottle!Limited Edition Boardman Team Carbon No. 448
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