When should you help out a fellow rider?

[Shebeen]

Eish Barhugger....I'm sure you a really nice guy being all prepared and all.  But the idea of going for a ride in the bush with someone that has cable ties, duct tape and surgical gloves in their bag makes me worry a bit   I'll bring my mace thank you

with that in mind, you got to wonder what he's really going to use the bloudraad for too

[blondeonabike]

with that in mind, you got to wonder what he's really going to use the bloudraad for too

and his "staaldruppels"  Translated I read "silver bullets"

[Odinson]

Ah-hem..........

 

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DAMN!  That's brave.

[igg]

For those of you carrying tampons/sanitary pads for woundcare... rather get some proper pressure dressings.

 

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[BarHugger]

Let's just hope there isn't any chloroform and Vaseline in his bag... 

 

 

with that in mind, you got to wonder what he's really going to use the bloudraad for too

 

 

and his "staaldruppels"  Translated I read "silver bullets"

 

 

DAMN!  That's brave.

 

 

Aaaaag you okes............

 

 

........now get back to work 

[Latent_Blue]

 

Wyatt also has an opinion on this................oh wait, he is MIA........

Do not jest... I may have been told, before, incidentally, by a long ago banned hubber - that said banned person may or may not have used a VPN to rejoin a certain social media site...

(just for the record - I was never banned)

[Odinson]

Do not jest... I may have been told, before, incidentally, by a long ago banned hubber - that said banned person may or may not have used a VPN to rejoin a certain social media site...

(just for the record - I was never banned)

 

If a certain someone does take that route, we'll find out soon enough.

 

A disturbance in the hub force will be felt. 

[SAGecko]

If I see someone stopped on the trail, I ALWAYS ask if they're ok and if they need help.

 

If I can give it, I give it.

[DIPSLICK]

HONESTLY IM JUST FOLLOWING THIS THREAD WAITING FOR THE DUTCHIE,TO COME AND TELL US HIS VERSION

 

END VAN PRENT

[SAGecko]

But like I said I am perfectly aware that no good dead goes unpunished.

 

In your profession, you often come across both the good dead, and the bad dead.

 

Why do you only punish the good dead? 

 

 

 

[Latent_Blue]

If a certain someone does take that route, we'll find out soon enough.

 

A disturbance in the hub force will be felt. 

they have been caught most times...

[Paul Ruinaard]

Day 2 of Sani was going well we were riding comfortably getting ready for the long climb out of the valley. Next thing we come across a guy with a snapped derailleur hanger. I carry a small bike shop worth of spares including an emergency / universal derailleur hanger. So I stop and give it to the guy explain to him that instructions are on the packaging. He says thanks but he doesn't have an allen key! We ask were his partner is he says no his partner is riding ahead and has not seen him in a long time.

 

So I spend 20min helping him get some sort of usable gears. In the meantime I send my partner ahead as I am the stronger rider.

 

Now no good dead goes unpunished. The guy I have been helping does say thanks but doesn't even ask my name or take my race number in case he wanted to buy me a drink to say thanks. I then start racing to catch up to my partner i don't drink or eat enough and bonk badly on Nandos hill, .

 

Overall it just left a bad taste in my mouth and really ruined day 2 for me.

 

So in the future what should I do?

- Ignore everyone with a problem in a ride as they are likely to be unorganised, unprepared and ungrateful.

- Stop and offer any spares i have but not give up my time.

- Or do exactly the same and give spares and time in the hope that that person will pay it forward in the future?

Yeah agreed. It does leave a bad taste.

 

I have had it happen to me as well. I was slower than everybody in my racing days but could fix most mechanicals. the guys would wait for me on the trail and then say thanks and disappear with a working bike.

 

I kind of agree with the pay it forward thing - I have given help to many guys and have received help from many as well.

 

If we stop working with this attitude and become selfish I think we would have lost part of what makes us in to some sort of community, be it on the hub, as cyclists on a trail or in general. And that is something we need more of rather than less of.

 

So go on your way knowing you helped someone - and let that be your rewards, rather than anything else.

 

And i hope you are on a trail behind me when I am in need.

[Jinga]

If I see someone stopped on the trail, I ALWAYS ask if they're ok and if they need help.

 

If I can give it, I give it.

+1 and I have a good feeling that I have done my good deed for the day.

[dirtypot]

Stopping depends on the ride:

Training / general trail riding - always stop and see if you can help (there's no rush anyway)

Racing:

   - mtb chilled, stop

   - mtb race, depends on how much you're suffering

   - road, sorry buddy you're on your own

 

That's how I look at it anyway.  And this is how I see it when I'm the sucker on the side of the road too.

Obviously that's for mechanical, medical is different.

 

I'm wondering if the dude is sitting on the hub now reading all of these comments and is now too afraid to put up his hand and say 'it was I'

[Patchelicious]

Stopping depends on the ride:

Training / general trail riding - always stop and see if you can help (there's no rush anyway)

Racing:

   - mtb chilled, stop

   - mtb race, depends on how much you're suffering

   - road, sorry buddy you're on your own

 

That's how I look at it anyway.  And this is how I see it when I'm the sucker on the side of the road too.

Obviously that's for mechanical, medical is different.

 

I'm wondering if the dude is sitting on the hub now reading all of these comments and is now too afraid to put up his hand and say 'it was I'

 

I like your break down. During a MTB race I will also stop, if it costs you 2mins over 3 hours, so be it.

 

But if you stop on a road race, you lose your bunch and will solo all the way home, losing a lot more.

[Hackster]

It's cool to help people, at all times, not just on the bike.

 

But sometimes you come across people who have taken the phrase 'the universe will provide' a little too seriously.

 

I choose not to inhabit their universe.