Cycling roadside recovery

bendertherobot
bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
edited July 2015 in Road general
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Very basic bicycle maintenance course and £25 on some get your home emergency kit would probably be better .....
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    It appears to amount to them getting a taxi for you?

    It's not clear if they will definitely take you home if it's within 25 miles or if there's a car hire place within a mile of where you're stranded they'll drop you there - which is pretty useless as you'd end up having to spend £100 to hire a car! Which you then have to take back!
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    i think a taxi home if a major mechanical problem happens will be much more cost effective in the long run.
    www.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes
  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,292
    I'd have thought a mechanical you can't fix means the end of a ride anyway, pringled wheel, snapped component etc.

    A breakdown van full of the relevant shimano/sram/rims etc fixes would be costly compared to an AA van which if they can't fix a problem just results in a tow.

    You shouldn't have a failed ride because of simple to spot failiures such as a dead brake block etc.
    Advocate of disc brakes.
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    yeah as HD says.

    I fix flats, snapped gear cables, broken chains and loose bolts and things but other than that can't see what else you could fix roadside really.

    getting a taxi to a bike shop instead would be a better bet if you want to carry on the ride, or home, fix the issue and head out again.
    www.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Does it cover bonking?
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19660676#p19660676]SloppySchleckonds[/url] wrote:
    Does it cover bonking?

    I think roadside bonking is something different
    www.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes
  • fudgey
    fudgey Posts: 854
    Isnt that what the wife is for?
    Not the bonking, the lift home...
    My winter bike is exactly the same as my summer bike,,, but dirty...
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,070
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19660948#p19660948]Fudgey[/url] wrote:
    Isnt that what the wife is for?
    Not the bonking, the lift home...

    Where the like button when you need it. Oh and FFS
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  • Sutton_Rider
    Sutton_Rider Posts: 493
    These are a bit cheaper...
    www.lexhaminsurance.co.uk/products/cycle-recovery/
  • matt@theforce
    matt@theforce Posts: 647
    I would have a chat with a local mobile bicycle mechanic. They may do a flat call out charge or offer a package to include regular servicing.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    In the badlands of Surrey it can not be possible to be too far to limp to a bike shop. If it is beyond limping then I would suggest that the failure to complete your ride would be the least of your problems
  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    Rule #83 // Be self-sufficient.

    Go and do a course on bike basics.
    A mechanical failure that could end a ride is very rare and I've had one in 40,000 miles and it was at the end of a ride.

    I've had far more rides ended early because of my own personal failure to be self-sufficent or carry enough food!
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Look after your bike, and your bike will look after you.
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • marcusjb
    marcusjb Posts: 2,412
    If you take care of your bike there's very few things that can go wrong with a bike to the point where you won't be able to, at minimum, scoot and freewheel it to a train station.

    In all my miles of cycling, I have only had one failure that caused me to get a train home - a freewheel where one of the pawls failed. Even that, I could have lashed it together with a few cable ties (useful things to shove inside your handlebars as they can fix just about anything (and the things they can't fix, can be fixed with gaffa tape!)) to make it into a fixed wheel if I'd really needed to finish that ride.

    Edit - cable ties can fix just about anything:

    4913972294_27a4f42341_o.jpg

    That's a snapped frame 1000km into a 1500km brevet - 500km with an inch gap in your downtube, that's self-sufficiency!
    Stuff about riding a bike a long way
  • de_sisti
    de_sisti Posts: 1,283
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19663354#p19663354]marcusjb[/url] wrote:

    In all my miles of cycling, I have only had one failure that caused me to get a train home
    I thought you had to book a bike onto a train?

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