|   On the topic of commuting... | Franz
Mar 27, 2002 5:49 AM | | So on the way to work this morning in a newish town to me, I get a flat - ooops forgot the tool kit and pump in my haste to get out the door - Damn! I'm about 6 miles form work and it's too far to go back home so I shoulder the bike and start huffing it. Keeping an eye for traffic - trucks, cars with bike racks, etc., I stick my thumb out whenever one comes up. No one stops - at all. Probably 5 folks with roof racks roared on past. Do they think I'm just out for a morning jog in my tights and helmet, just carrying the bike for fun? I've stopped for other cyclists in need of a lift before. I guess I'm just annoyed that fellow cyclists driving to work wouldn't stop to help another out. 'nough rant for this morn... |
| Traveling light | Steve-O
Mar 27, 2002 6:29 AM | | I usually ride with flat resistant tires (right now Continental Ultra GatorSkins). In my seat bag is a spare tube, tire levers, and an 8 mm allen wrench (for crank/BB). I also carry along a frame pump.
I consider this traveling pretty light; however, beyond occasional flat tires I have never been reduced to walk home status. Another tip I tell people is to look at the tires for shards of glass that gradually work their way in. Pull out the glass before it penetrates the tire.
As for other cyclist, I totally agree with you. Usually when I'm on a ride I always ask people if they need a tube or pump as I'm riding by. Usually they say no but I have had a few people take me up on it! |
| I bet you won't forget it again. | Bikebreath
Mar 27, 2002 6:50 AM | | Those that passed you are LOSERS! I could see if you had stereo typical clothing of a sub culture group like those on the fringes of society that would cast a negative cloud over you, but who's selling crack or weed or begging for money with a bike on their shoulder? What crook would use that as a scam to pull off a car jacking? So how you like the newish town now?
I've pulled U-turns with my car and gotten out tools, pumps and even sat down on the sidewalk to help other bikers out. Hopefully for your faith in the new town, the ones that passed you were having "one of those mornings" just like you and couldn't stop.
Six miles is the length of my commute. The other questions above were rhetorical, not this one--> Did you have to walk the entire 6 miles?
Bb, [ it's all exercise ] |
| re: On the topic of commuting... | Jrm
Mar 27, 2002 7:01 AM | | of course theres the obivous, pack tubes and a pump or a presta adapter. What i do is carry emough money for the bus. I sucked a rear derailler some 5 miles from work one morning. But with bus fare i made it to work on time.
PS: last night i saw a fellow commuter on a Bullitt. The guy was riding on Embarcadero into a 10 mph headwind...ouch.... |
| That sux. I'd have gone back home and back to bed. nm | fred³
Mar 27, 2002 7:14 AM | | |
| re: On the topic of commuting... | Spike
Mar 27, 2002 7:57 AM | | Bummer about the flat and not having your tools. But a couple comments on nobody giving you a lift. Being a woman, I would not pick up a guy hitchhiker when I'm by myself, even if he was a biker with a flat tire. And I NEVER have any extra time when I'm on my way to work. I tend to run late. If I had a spare tube I might toss one out the window to you though. :-)
Spike |
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