If you can't change a puncture, don't fecking ride a bike!

The last two times I've been in Condor the person in front of me has been bringing their bike in to get a puncture fixed.

WTF?! How can people stand paying a bike shop each time they get a puncture? How hard is it? They can rarely fit it in that day so they have to come back the next day. No wonder bike shop staff get pissed off.

I'm just pissed off because the big lunchtime queue is full of people trying to get punctures repaired ;)

Am I being unreasonable? Should I just be glad they're cycling? Probably.

have you ever tried getting a bontrager hard case onto a velocity deep v
i broke 2 tyre levers and had to move on to the spoons draw in the kitchen to get it on
some people may not own spoons

If it was that type of scenario fair enough, it wasn't though, sadly. In either case.

And come on, who doesn't own spoons? I suppose very minimalist people who only have sporks. But that would still work!

have you ever tried getting a bontrager hard case onto a velocity deep v
i broke 2 tyre levers and had to move on to the spoons draw in the kitchen to get it on
some people may not own spoons

And come on, who doesn't own spoons? I suppose very minimalist people who only have sporks. But that would still work!

I have a spork, and can testify that it would not withstand being used as a tyre lever.

depends what one of spork it is a lightweight taiwantanium spork won't work but a trusty brtish one would. And that is a scientific fact.

Racist

the spoons draw in the kitchen

Did you win one?

the spoons draw in the kitchen

Hybrid tyres rarely puncture and as a consequence nodders who ride them have no experience of changing tubes nor do they generally carry a spare or a pump.

Nodders should not be discouraged but encouraged to move upwards.

Today's nodder is tomorrow's cyclist.

Well, if I hear about someone going amok in Condor I know at least who it was.

or get a gimp

not everyone has the insight to ride with tools and a spare tube though.

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[sits and waits for shoots*]

Bike shops charge £5 for a simple task and typically upsell them kits, pumps and shiney things.. punctures are a god send when the summer trade drops.

So you go into bike shops at lunch times [!?!??] kind of asking for it there fox

I've read this thread twice and still don't know why you've posted a picture of Object/Plagarist.

I've read this thread twice and still don't know why you've posted a picture of Object/Plagarist.

You're mean :(

Perhaps I shouldnt ride, as I dont know how to change a puncture... kind of

no joke, that is him :)

FFS!

Its a fucking splade!

My thumbs have "waists". And I have to be very careful of them, they are my bread and butter (massage therapist, unno). But yesterday I fitted a Bontrager hardcase onto my new araya rim (el guapo did the other) and was the happiest girl I could be! clap clap clap

i've read this thread twice and still don't know why you've posted a picture of object/plagarist.

reppd

Can somebody get Edscoble in here...?

'Ahleks' is the new ed

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread23965.html

i don't really know how to change the tires on my car and it cost a lot more than my bike and tbh probably about as hard/easy.

at the end of the day who really cares it's a bike, it's not fucking eighties hardcore, you don't need to get precious about it.

i don't really know how to change the tires on my car and it cost a lot more than my bike and tbh probably about as hard/easy.

at the end of the day who really cares it's a bike, it's not fucking eighties hardcore, you don't need to get precious about it.

I kinda know how to change the tyres on a car even though i dont drive, more than I do on a bike, but I have observed few bike tyres punctures being fixed, so i think I know how its done