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worst anti-climax cycling related?

  • 11-07-2010 1:29am
    #1
    kumate_champ07
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    stuffed my rucksack with the bare minimum for this weekends trip but a laptop and hefty camera equipment didnt help, cycled into the city with the heavy rucksack on my back shifting as much weight forward as i could so as not to wreck the back wheel.

    5hr bus to Donegal, walked with the bike and my friend, eventually found the house, today I go out for a cycle and 5mins later a puncture, Ive no pump and theres no shops in this Gaeltacht! (only 1 that sells chocolate and junk for kids)

    so all that trouble to get the bike up and now I cant use it


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  • #2
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    I dont race so I guess others will have worse stories


  • #3
    Piercemeear
    Registered Users Posts: 200 ✭✭Piercemeear


    Similar thing happened to me in Connemara last month. I managed to find a cheap puncture repair kit in a newsagents, but not before a ten mile walk with bike. Resolved to be more prepared in future.

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  • #4
    thebouldwhacker
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    If your really stuck and have to repair a puncture get some kinda string (must be strong) find the hole in the tube and as tight as possible wrap the string around the hole and tie it tight. When its inflated the air will fill the tube from both sides and the string will pinch the hole not letting the air out. It'll keep you going till you can sort it out properly.:)


  • #5
    C3PO
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    Don't mean to be rude lads but going to Donegal/Connemara with a bike and no spare tube/pump/puncture repair kit!! I don't much like to carry gear myself but a tube, pump and multi-tool really are a must!!


  • #6
    IM0
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    uugh..

    So 2008 having cycled my way round france cycletouring, decided to get on a train when was nearing a boring region in Burgundy.

    so sitting on platform waiting for train to pull up as is, cant disnamtle panniers 5 btw, and bike, more than 2+ trips needed to get on train, and because you dont know where the train is going to stop I had to wait and keep it all in one piece before the train stopped and quickly real quick dismantle it all.

    train pulls up, I break everything down, there is no seperate carriage for bike was told at station there was one!:mad::mad:

    the platform is beginning to clear, the dude is getting ready to blow the whistle, I decided there and then that it was all or nothing and didnt want to take the chance of 1/2 my luggage going to auxerre, and me standing holding my c@ck wondering wtf?

    so...cut losses let the train go and eat the the station manager instead
    got a refund, next to impossible in france but I kept demanding it...

    and cycled the rest of the way to Paris afterall, it turned out to be great :pac:


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  • #7
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    RPL1 wrote: »
    Don't mean to be rude lads but going to Donegal/Connemara with a bike and no spare tube/pump/puncture repair kit!! I don't much like to carry gear myself but a tube, pump and multi-tool really are a must!!

    I know ye, see I only have a large foot pump for a car, it was too big to stuff in my bag, ordering a light bike pump tonite to bring with me on rides in the future.

    I did actually bring full size tools tho!


  • #8
    Piercemeear
    Registered Users Posts: 200 ✭✭Piercemeear


    RPL1 wrote: »
    Don't mean to be rude lads but going to Donegal/Connemara with a bike and no spare tube/pump/puncture repair kit!! I don't much like to carry gear myself but a tube, pump and multi-tool really are a must!!

    Ah, you know. Accidents happen. Thought I had tubes in my bag. Did not. Went out anyway when I got down there, obviously.


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