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Bush etiquette
Where i come from , if you see someone on the side of the track with their bike pulled apart,it would be a standard thing to stop and see if they need help , any sort of help...During my second stop to repair a massive pinch flat at Manly Dam yesterday, no less than TEN people rode past without even offering help...thank you to the gentleman on the carbon GT for the spare patch, and thank you to the irish guy on the green Giant for a tube (which i gave him some money)I used up 3 pacthes i had in my kit...next time i'll have 4 patches and a tube.....
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Not all cyclists (MTB or Road) subscribe to the same school of thought i.e. see someone on the side of the trail/road with some kind of mechanical, stop and ask if they are ok & help them where possible. Hopefully karma will catch up with them and they will stack on the next corner...
Having said that, I have very little sympathy for riders (especially experienced riders) that go riding with no spares or tools and expect someone else to come to their aid i.e. ride a particular track with no spares etc. because they know it's a popular track and that someone else will 'lend' them tools/spares...
I hear ya....
In usual riding I always stop, or at least ask if they are OK. In a race or hot lap it's different though. If it looks like a quick fix (i.e. a power gel, super link, cable or something similar) then I will stop and chuck them over, but if I'm on a hot time (yeah right!) then I don't.
Manly dam is a motorway over the weekend, it's a shame so many went past without stopping, perhaps they were on hot laps too
But as junkie said, always carry a proper tool kit with patches and a tube.
p.s. I've had days like you as well where I went through all of my patches (what pressures was I running then? Wow), that's why I always carry the tube
yep i'll be pumping my tyres up to about a million pounds to try avoid this , maybe some tougher sidewalls ...Damn Nevegals seem soft on the sidewalls...
I only hear good things about those tyres though, people rave about them especially as a front tyre, perhaps matched with a Larsen on the back. Perfect stuff around the dam. Yeah sounds like pressure would be the thing to look at.
Sound like you had a bad run though, I've only ever met nice people around the trails here in Sydney.
it's no surprse they didn't stop - most of them can barely manage a 'hello' on a weekend - i would have asked but i haven't got a clue what to do so am perfectly useless - but isn't it the thought that counts..
I broke my chain a couple of weeks ago at the dam and I reckon everyone that rode past offered assistance or asked if I was ok.
I agree we should all carry a toolkit and spares but I reckon its always the one thing you don't have that breaks:-)
yep, you're onto it , i have a maxxis ready to go on the back , it's actually a crossmark..? i've had great runs with maxxis .....t'was a worse than usual run ...all in a days bikin... goin to play again today
I have had a similiar experience while riding around manly dam by myself. I had a stack (over the bars) at the bottom of the downhill section towards the creek and split my chin open (with a suspected broken arm). After sitting on the side of the trail for about 15 minutes, about a dozen riders went by with NOT ONE asking if i was alright. This suprised me as most MTBer's are friendly and talk to me but not on this time. I always make sure that i talk to people who i see on the side of the trail and make sure they are OK.
wow, that's a worry , especially when you're hurt....
Perhaps they thought you were having a nap?
The simple moral of this story is ride some other trails I guess.. if you can find any that are still open that is. It appears some people that ride there adopt a strange attitude while at the dam, perhaps due to the numbers? I don't know, I've never seen this sort of thing, but I have noticed that people don't say hello as much. I can only think it's because there are so many riders. When you see someone out at other trails it's quite rare so people make an effort... I dunno
are too busy turning it into a personal race track in an attempt to get a hot lap?
I'll always say hello, even to a bloke with a broken leg walking his pommie
(Hope it gets better soon mate)
My ride buddy's rear derailleur disintegrated near the bowling club a few months ago. We managed to find the pieces ( jockey wheel, bushes etc. ) but realised that his hanger was seriously bent too. While trying to figure out what to do, Hugh Flower from CBD appears in front of us asking if we need help with anything ! While he didn't have a spare Kona hanger, he did manage to straighten the bent one and rebuild the derailleur. Oh, and he also adjusted the brakes...... He then disappeared off round the dam on a rigid singlespeed. At the speed he was going, his potential time would have been seriously fast, but I got the feeling that he would find it hard to get a full lap in without stopping to help someone.........Class
CB