What did you leave at home

[Ferrari]

Forgot tubby bag with spare tubes and tyre levers in car. Discovered this 5min before VB start on the Berge & Dale this year. Not a pleasant discovery.......

[Sammajoor]

Try someone( will not name names) taking one MTB and one Road shoe to a hub ride.......

[Captain Slow]

My wife!!!

[TNT1]

On more than one occasion I have discovered that I have left my legs at home. The problem with that is that you only find them missing about an hour or so into the race...

[Bos]

You left out 'front wheel'

 

Hey Pete! I was going to say that!! thinking of my ride Monday they should also add - LUCK- which I had none of on my ride with you on monday. (if this Is you- otherwise Im making a tit of myself)

 

I guess I could have crashed real bad...

My thigh muscle is so sore from paddling my way back to the car after my chain snapped I can hardly walk! haha I should have just have you guys push me all the way..

 

Thanks for the ride.

 

 

[Thug]

Was living in East London and riding Enduros at  the time. Packed the motorbike on the trailer for a Provincial in King Williams Town, loaded the family and off we went.

 

Arrive at the race, unpack everything and start to get dressed but hold on a sec, where the hell are my boots? Seems I'd left them at home  so I conveniently blamed the wife.

 

[Taps]

Forgot to take a dump (sorry!)

[TNT1]

 

Forgot to take a dump (sorry!)

 

Worse is when you remember to take one, and then after 20minutes on the bike you realise there's seconds...

 

[Tumbleweed]

Was living in East London and riding Enduros at  the time. Packed the motorbike on the trailer for a Provincial in King Williams Town' date=' loaded the family and off we went.

Arrive at the race, unpack everything and start to get dressed but hold on a sec, where the hell are my boots? Seems I'd left them at home  so I conveniently blamed the wife.
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which is maybe why you're not married anymore?

[scotty]

Maybe you should ask what did you take along ?

 

Anybody ever left the bike at home ? 

Friend of mine rocked up at the sun city mtb race with his road bike attached to his carrier, he did the road race sat and forgot to swop his bike for sun mtb race.

 

[kennyg]

All the cycling kit... Went to fetch my number... My buddy decided, to lock the car...and leave... Lets say he had a good race and a blood nose...

[Nialls101]

A friend forgot his car keys in his car. The doors locked and we rode home to get the keys and I gave him a lift back to the venue, wotta chop

[scotty]

Ive forgotten almost everything except my bike although i did leave the front wheel once behind.  

[Kranswurm]

Climbed on my bike at the start of a road race and tried to clip in......slops

[Pro-Funrider]

My Bike!!!! Drive all the way to Vereeniging from Pretoria and ja well, what a shocker when I stopped there.

[Woofie]

Timing chip

 

Ive done this before ......... twice

 

I swore after the first time that I would never forget it again.

 

For the first race, I just went home, on the second race I wondered why I never heard the beep beep to look down in horror at my empty leg.

 

What a bummer.

 

That is one quick way to demotivate you for your ride.

 

Half way through the ride I decided to pull out of my slum and I made a huge solo effort to catch the next group in front of me. About 25 min later just as I caught them I got a flat and my previous group went past me. God was obviously teaching me something

 

 

 

I normally also carry two spare tubes with me on rides and on the burger I only had one tube. I thought it would all be fine until I got a flat in my starting pen. After rushing the repair and half inflating my tire I started 3 groups late. I then rushed off to my car - having already started - finished pumping with my foot pump - and then I had to get back to the race. By this time the next group had already come and gone.

 

I pushed myself stupid to try and catch up and I eventually managed to finish very well in my group despite my huge time penalty.

 

I can now see the value in two tubes and two bombs.