Irony + naivety * health & safety = frostbite

Poor show that. I like to help folk when I can in an altruistic stylee.

I agree it is a poor show, I like to stop and offer help (99% of the time people don't accept) at least most of the time, I remember the last time I saw someone stopped I cycled past because I was late for work... felt guilty... oh and it wasn't yesterday...

But, part of me thinks, ffs does karma exist?

Well not in the literal do one good deed get one back way... but in a more insubstantial, doing good makes those around you do good which increases the chance of you being a reciever... at least that's how I like to think of it...

Course karma is bullshit!
I just like to stop and help people as they are more likely to stop and help someone else in the future (or so i'd like to think) and thus everyone looks out for each other much more.

you can fit a bike in a cab. lots of drivers don't mind.

it feels a bit like turning to the dark side, and it's f*cking pricy, but it got me out of a similar situation once.

Course karma is bullshit!
I just like to stop and help people as they are more likely to stop and help someone else in the future (or so i'd like to think) and thus everyone looks out for each other much more.

I help people whether they seemed less or more likely to do the same to me if I have a puncture, the world is full of cynical wankers, might as well make it slighty better by helping people when you don't need to.

I have had problems with my BMX on the tube. I had a puncher and was going north on the pickadily line (wich I know you are not alowd bikes on) at Finsbury park they said I couldn;t take a bike on (policy and all that) so I took the front wheel off in front of them and went to walk through. They said I still go on so I pointed out that as they were following the letter of the law about the bikes so was I. There is no policy about bike parts (wich as my bike was now in two pieces it was now bike parts and not a bike) they couldn't really argue and I got on the (empty, I hasten to add, I wouldn't have done it in rush hour) tube. All good.
If they are going to be pedantic then you can be as well.

that remind me to get a handful of zip-tie to carry with me.

I got fed up with the cold last night (and I was a little drunk) so I took my bike on the district line. Man, have you practiced your trackstanding skills on a moving train?! That was a fun contest.

Don't go around telling people they're wrong right on their face!, it's folding bicycles you're speaking of;

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/9049.aspx#buses

Thanks for that link Ed, but no, it's not what I'm speaking of. The link you have posted appears to be a simplified and condensed summary of the situation and naturally the TFL website would rather tell you not to take your bike on the bus - I'd tell you that if I worked for them. The TFL website quite frequently gives me false information though (on train times, for example) so I am wont not to trust it.

However, I have read another, very dense, dull and long document (possibly from a link from this here very same forum) on bus rules & regulations which quite clearly states my original assertion that taking bikes on the bus - any kind of bike - is up to the driver's discretion. Unfortunately I can't be bothered to find the link, sorry. I'm also terribly sorry that you felt insulted!

to be fair, bike are not allowed on buses.

however, if you take off both the wheel, turn the stem 45 degree, some zip ties and plastic bin bags wrapped round it, they should let you in.
I recently had to get a special 'rail replacement bus service' and got away with bringing a fully assembled bike on board. I think they felt they couldn't really complain. The driver also needed me to give him directions to the train station.

I got fed up with the cold last night (and I was a little drunk) so I took my bike on the district line. Man, have you practiced your trackstanding skills on a moving train?! That was a fun contest.

that. is. brilliant.

Since i'm from Wimbledon, all I have to do is take the last District from Notting Hill Gate and tried that out.

you can fit a bike in a cab. lots of drivers don't mind.

it feels a bit like turning to the dark side, and it's f*cking pricy, but it got me out of a similar situation once.

yep - i took a cab from one of the first west drinks up holland park ave nhg one night, because i got a puncture and was too mc hammered to even try and fix it!

Taxis do it. but spare tubes and patches weigh FA!

If Busses let you on and it gets busy they get an ear full, the amount of shit they get i can't blame them for keeping life simple.

@Conn Artist - Love your avatar! that has to be one of my all time TV moments.. magic!

yep - i took a cab from one of the first west drinks up holland park ave nhg one night, because i got a puncture and was too mc hammered to even try and fix it!

poof

What? Did he just disappear?

all that was left was a sprinkling of glitter on the floor

poof

poof? i was belted! it was only about a mile up the hill, anyway.

you would have got your driver to come and get you.

knobber

Yep, my blood/G ratio is monitored along with a GPS position. When it gets to a certain level the butler comes up and takes me home for a tea with extra sugar

its the only way!