COMMIT TO STOP AND HELP

[AndreZA]

Okay, all of you can pat yourselfs on the back for being good.

 

I also helped an old madala once. He was on the side of the road fixing a flat. They can fix it without taking the wheel off, amazing. Anyway, the tube was basically just patches with a valve, don't think there was anything of the original tube left. He said he was okay but I gave him one of my tubes to use as soon as he could get to tools to remove his wheel. I did feel much better after that and thought I could just ride all day.

 

 

[porky]

If you want to lift your spirits, just help someone in need - it works every time.

[Slave]

Coupla years ago I was out and about on the bike. Got a couple of punctures and my pump broke so fixing them was a problem. After my third, quite some distance from anywhere where I could pump my wheel, some fellow cyclists stopped, gave me a tube and helped me by pumping the thing with one of those CO2 inflators.

 

Small stuff for them but a BEEEEEG thing for me. I know not who they are but thanks dudes, you save me a moooooooerse long walk pushing my bike.

 

So now, I always ask cyclists if they need help when they are on the side of the road. A few times I have helped people and once had the opportunity to meet a lone lady cyclist who had a puncture. She was so grateful it was scary. What was really scary was that she was in a pretty bad place all by herself. I even taught her how to repair punctures and what she needed.

 

Met up with her the other day at LBS and she told everyone what a hero I was in her books. Pretty much over the top praise for a little thing and a bit embarassing for me with all the bike shop patrons staring at me. (Heck, I even tried to hid behing the Easton wheel display.)

 

Anyhoo, my thoughts on this are that despite what we think, we are all part of a clan and need to show some form of comraderie. What does it cost us to be polite and friendly? Niks, nada, Nothing.

 

If all of us do this, we can start getting some friendly vibes going and maybe we can change the agro BS and teach others that being polite and friendly is not a bad thing. Maybe it will rub off on all thise agro motorists and help reduce the risks we face as cyclists trying to get just a little space on the roads.

 

I'm all for this and I commit fully to the plan.

[Tumbleweed]

Coupla years ago I was out and about on the bike. Got a couple of punctures and my pump broke so fixing them was a problem. After my third' date=' quite some distance from anywhere where I could pump my wheel, some fellow cyclists stopped, gave me a tube and helped me by pumping the thing with one of those CO2 inflators.

 

Small stuff for them but a BEEEEEG thing for me. I know not who they are but thanks dudes, you save me a moooooooerse long walk pushing my bike.

 

 

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totally agree! last year, just outside worcester on my way back from cape town, i came across a trio of cyclists fixing a flat. i stopped my car and got out with my floor pump to help them out. the look on their faces made me feel really good! 

[bustthesickness]

 

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!!!!!!!!!

Thats a really cool story. Makes me have faith in the human spirit.