COMMIT TO STOP AND HELP

[Yang]

Originally posted by holy roller Originally posted by supavan HR: I can't take all the credit for trying to contact Garth's family. There was another gentleman that put Garth's sim in his own phone to try and get ahold of them. fact is, you stopped to help. that earns you respect in my book.many would've just gone past.

 

Yip, very important fact.  It is a small thing you did but the deed was great. 

 

Last year prior to the 94.7.  I was  on my way home from my Saturday morning ride.  In Botha avenue on the Pretoria side from Kloofsig,  I got to a accident scene.  A cyclists somehow wiped out and the paramedics was attending to him.  When I got there, the paramedics was almost ready to load him in the ambulance.  Yet despite the fact that it was a Saturday morning and hundreds of cyclists was prepping for the 94.7 ... not a single one of them stopped to assist this guy.  He was there alone and luckily he was able to contact the ambulance.  According to the paramedics he was in and out of consciousness.  Luckily when I stopped he was able to give me a number to contact.  He was an American diplomat.  Paramedics told me they are taking him to Unitas.  I told the paramedic to go, I will get him his bike to hospital and try to contact his family there.  Got my wife to come and pick me up and took his bike to Unitas hospital where I got hold of his wife.  He was okay with a broken collarbone and concussion. 

 

But what really bothered me was that of all the cyclists that passed this accident sence nobody would give a rats ass.

 

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Just finished reading the thread started by Supavan on the injured cyclist he stopped for, and then Bateleur's comments above.

 

I think that we as Hubbers should commit to stop for any lone cyclist that we come across on the road who has stopped, to see if he or she needs help. Whether you are in your car or on your bike, and whether the cyclist is lying unconscious on the ground or is just standing there, or pumping up his tyre. If he's on his own, let's commit to slow down and say- "Hey- everything OK?", or see if we can help in another way, even if its just to stay with him or her, until they're mobile again, or until proper help arrives. What do you think? If we as cyclists can't stop for another cyclist, then why should anyone else bother???

Yang2008-12-31 05:08:17

[Cois]

if you don't stop you are a big Ass!

 

 

 

I helped a guy who ran out of water once. Gave him my water and just stopped at the next PnP and got myself some more water. Not a big deal, but the bloke on the bike thought it was...

[Yang]

What Supavan did should not be a "great" deed- it should be a normal deed for us cyclists.

[No Name]

I was driving a team vehicle at DC and about 5 km from the end, there was a development rider just standing next to the road.  We stopped and it came down that the guy had no water and no food. He was sooo hungry and so drained. So we gave him so Energade and a Fruit stick.  I think we he saw the food,  his eyes went all watery.

[latentree]

Stopped alongside a "ou toppie" repairing a puncture the other day. He just needed an extra thumb to push the tire over the rim again. Said tire levers would damage the tight fitting tire. Felt so good to be able to help in such a simple way.

 

[hot stuff]

Helped a dude once he had cycle lab kit on, but i had never seen him before, he was walking with his cleats and his chain hanging. Put his bike in the my bakkie and took him to southfield. His back dereaillier was broken. he was so grateful. He came a couple of weeks later to club ride and his face just beemed.

[Delgado]

no need to commit!! Been doing just that for over 30 years!!

[joevan]

And I'll second that Delgado. When I was a youngster it was known as common courtesy, something that is rare these days, but I must say is still generally prevalent amongst cyclists.

[Guest Big H]

We just got our Tandem and on a training run around Roodeplaat dam on that long downhill on the Aventura leg just before you go under the railway bridge we burst a front tyre and totally destroyed our front tyre. Our children were not at home and we were quite stuck. A young man in a bakkie stopped and took us all the way home.

 

I will stop and help whilst on a training run, I very seldom stop and help during a race where there is broomwagons and marshalls who can supervise and help....... then it all depends on the situation. We were in a race and continually dicing with another tandem. They broke a chain and when we stopped the lady tartilly said....."Julle het mos nou 'n kans om ons te wen, hoekom vat julle dit nie!!!!!!" Without a word we mounted and proceeded with our race. The husband later profusely apologized!!!!!!

 

I recall a story in a recent Ride Mag, the cyclist was walking up the hill against the flow of the race with a 1000 yard stare in his eyes. The guy stopped and offered him water which he took and he then complained about cramps. He asked for something to rub on his legs. The helping cyclist had nothing but offered him a Vooma. The man took the Vooma opened it up and started to rub the gel onto his legs!!!!!!!! The cyclist then gacve up and left!!!!!!!!

[turtlek]

Last year in october i was riding along the old pretoria road back towards kempton in the rain and i got a puncture a guy named rob stopped immediately and offered me a lift i was not going to take it but he insisted and instead of just taking me to the point where he had to turn off for bronkhorstspruit he took me all the way home to esther park an extra 20km round trip for him

 

 

 

when we got to my place i offered him petrol money and a cup of coffee but he refused i couldnt just let him go empty handed so i insisted he take some petrol money

 

 

 

a while later i went up to fetch the post in the post box and there was a note from him with the money attached saying: It is not often i get to do a good deed for a fellow cyclist rather go buy a tube and come visit me out in bronkhorstpruit any time you want

 

 

 

he left the address and i have ridden to his place three or four times and i even got hi mto ride out to mine twice hahaha

 

 

 

Things like this should be common ground between any motorist/cyclist pedestrian and human being

 

 

 

WHY ARE WE SO CAUGHT UP IN OUR OWN LIVES INSTEAD OF HELPING OTHERS OUT MORE OFTEN!!!!!!!!!

[GFishy]

I was cycling tin the Durbanville area few years ago and get a flat on a nice downhill...lucky for me kept the bike in straight line...

 

Got the tube changed blah blah just to discover that my bomb is not working...there I am walking back to Durbanville...Within seconds a lady in Combi stops and ask if she can take me home (to my house!!!)...while speaking to her, another guy stopped and asked if I was ok...best to come...

 

Then in this matter of seconds a cyclist come around and I ask if I could borrow his pump. People waited for me to see if I could ride back.

 

Big thank you to the anonymous people in the WC for helping a then Valie!

 

 

 

 

[idrive]

I ripped a 2-inch hole into my tubelss rear tyre whilst out in the miele fields on the Bronkhorstspruit side of Bapsfontein.

With no option I rode home on the rim then near the railway line (near Marrister rd) I saw the driver of a bakkie stop so I asked him for a lift.

 

He damanded R50 to take me to the Pomona rd off-ramp of the R21 but I only had R20 but the bastard wouldn't accept that. By the time I got to Finish Lne Cycles my wheel was history.

 

The wheel turns and I hope the idiginous prick in his company bakkie is un-loved and had a bleak xmas & new year!!!

[Yang]

I've helped once in a race- in the Argus a few years back I punctured on a cateye going down Chapman's (also got a flat spot on my rim- ruined it), and while I changed my tyre another rider stopped next to me with a puncture- he had no pump so I gave him mine and carried on, not waiting for him to give it back to me.

 

Then in a Durban race I punctured twice and only had one tube. A rider stopped to give me his tube and he refused my cash.

 

We should all live by what he said-

 

If you want to repay me, do the same for someone else.

 

 

[NotSoBigBen]

Found an oke with a flat tubeless tyre near Vaal Marina this morning, no tube, no pump, no levers nada! Said he still had a fair way to go and there was no cellphone reception. Helped him to put my spare tube in and pump it with my emergency shorty pump (took a little while ...)

 

 

 

He offered to make a plan to return the tube but I said 'help the next person you see with a problem' that's repayment enough!

 

 

 

The relief on the guys face when he could get going again was priceless .....

 

 

 

Now my beef with bikeshops, dont tell okes that tubeless is the end of your punctures! Also advise them still to carry basic spares especially on training rides where you can end up in the middle of nowhere stranded.

[turtlek]

Found an oke with a flat tubeless tyre near Vaal Marina this morning' date=' no tube, no pump, no levers nada! Said he still had a fair way to go and there was no cellphone reception. Helped him to put my spare tube in and pump it with my emergency shorty pump (took a little while ...)

 

 

 

He offered to make a plan to return the tube but I said 'help the next person you see with a problem' that's repayment enough!

 

 

 

The relief on the guys face when he could get going again was priceless .....

 

 

 

Now my beef with bikeshops, dont tell okes that tubeless is the end of your punctures! Also advise them still to carry basic spares especially on training rides where you can end up in the middle of nowhere stranded.[/quote']

 

 

 

so many people think that a tubeless wheel is bombproof

 

 

 

it might reduce punctures but will never stop them!!!!

[Moab]

One day I stopped to offer assistance to a mtb rider, then as I rode away I got a flat. No one to help me - bunch of idiots rode past me and no one offered help despite my struggling to get my tire off the rim. Then another lone rider helped and I was off in 5min.

After that experience I stop to help anyone - even the gardner types.

Was driving near the Sandton Clinic about 6months ago and saw a cyclist fall in the road - I pulled  up behind her with my hazards on and offered assistance. Stayed there until she was  up and riding again.

 

As cyclists I agree - we need to stop and help each other whether we are in our cars or on our bikes.