Spotted...

The amount of people who just sailed past us, really fast rush rush home home me me me it's all about me, without even glancing at us, or offering help or anything. A lot of them would have been carrying more suitable stuff than we had, as the courier and I had skinny 700s (and he had no spare tube) but the commuter was using fat 26s, so we could have done with a fat schrader spare. I even asked someone who was riding past, who said, 'yeah I've got a spare, but I might need it up the road'.

I was struck by the selfishness of a lot of commuters on bikes. Maybe that's the link I'm trying to allude to.

To be fair, if there are two people helping someone already most people would probably have thought there was no need to stop. At least that's what I think I would do. If I see someone on their own having a problem, I like to stop and see what's up. Same if it's just one person helping unless it's obvious it's under control...but two people helping, if I was pootling past, would just make me think all is cool (again, unless there's an obvious amount of head-scratching and rifling in bags going on).