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Running Brewer
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 Posted: 08/08/06 - 14:48 Post subject: bike commuters
How many times a month do you need outside assistance with biking? Either a tire, or other problem?
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 15:06 Post subject:
Well if this ain't a call out.......... 
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purple hayes
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 15:07 Post subject: Re: bike commuters
| Running Brewer wrote: | | How many times a month do you need outside assistance with biking? Either a tire, or other problem? |
.5 times a month. I could have fixed my problem myself this AM, but I knew my wife was awake and I was close enough that I could get a ride from her before I got the tire changed out.
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 15:09 Post subject: Re: bike commuters
| purple hayes wrote: | | Running Brewer wrote: | | How many times a month do you need outside assistance with biking? Either a tire, or other problem? |
.5 times a month. I could have fixed my problem myself this AM, but I knew my wife was awake and I was close enough that I could get a ride from her before I got the tire changed out. |
That's a half-assed answer. 
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 15:14 Post subject: Re: bike commuters
| purple hayes wrote: | | Running Brewer wrote: | | How many times a month do you need outside assistance with biking? Either a tire, or other problem? |
.5 times a month. I could have fixed my problem myself this AM, but I knew my wife was awake and I was close enough that I could get a ride from her before I got the tire changed out. |
For the right price, this guy has a sweet bike recovery service available...and he takes both AAA and AARP!
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purple hayes
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 15:15 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | Well if this ain't a call out.......... |
Poky and HYPER commuter, too.
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Running Brewer
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 15:19 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | JACKED UP wrote: | | Well if this ain't a call out.......... |
Poky and HYPER commuter, too. |
Actually I should probably have called this bike riders. I am interested in the response from all who ride extended distances from their house.
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 15:25 Post subject:
I can only think of once in the last seven years that I've biked commuted that I had to stash my bike after a flat because I didn't have a tube with and had to hoof it the rest of the way to work..actually wasn't too late, I had running shoes with. Otherwise, a couple times a summer, I'll guess the weather wrong and bike on a day with torrential downpours or lightening where I'll get a ride home somehow and drive the following day, toss the biek in the truck.
The 'bent is very reliable 
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 15:33 Post subject:
the first time i ever took a mountain bike on a 6 mile trail, it got a flat and i had to walk it back 3 miles at 12 noon on a pea gravel trail with a complaining preteen who was walking hers back too. that sucked!
she won't ride with me anymore. in fact, i won't ride with me anymore cuz i can't fit the bike in my new car.
biking's too complicated!
but i'm hardly a commuter. 
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purple hayes
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 15:42 Post subject:
I take back my earlier answer. I think this is an accurate count of the number of times I've called for help.
wreck* - 
trashed a tube AND tire
3 flats and not enough patches
hit a car*
broken rear der. hanger
this morning*
*was actually close enough to walk home (1 or 2 miles) but called for a ride anyway.
If I catch a ride for weather, it's because somebody offered, not because I needed it.
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 15:43 Post subject:
with my 5 mile commute i NEVER need outside assistance. I'd say i normally get a flat only once a month on average and i carry everything i need to change it.
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Running Brewer
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 15:59 Post subject:
I have been trying to figure out a way to bike to work but I live alone so I wouldn't have any outside help, as no one in my family lives close, and it is a 19 mile ride (on the highway, probaly 25 side roads). I thinking I may drive to a park and ride, then ride the bike from there, that way it would be about a 10 mile bike ride, and closer if I needed assistance.
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 16:18 Post subject:
| Running Brewer wrote: | | I have been trying to figure out a way to bike to work but I live alone so I wouldn't have any outside help, as no one in my family lives close, and it is a 19 mile ride (on the highway, probaly 25 side roads). I thinking I may drive to a park and ride, then ride the bike from there, that way it would be about a 10 mile bike ride, and closer if I needed assistance. |
taxi?
The Atlanta area has a "guaranteed ride home" program if you sign up for it.
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 16:30 Post subject:
only when it's electrical storm...
otherwise i put a garbage bag around my back pack and off i go.
i should probably get a spare tire tube - i haven't done that yet and i'm pushing my luck. it's a lengthy walk.
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Posted: 08/08/06 - 18:54 Post subject:
I commute 1/2 a mile each way. Never a problem although I've nearly wiped out several times in just that short distance.  On weekends I've done some 25-35 mile rides and never a problem till a couple weeks ago when my chain came off.  I fixed it myself. 
I'm glad I re-read that and fixed my spelling. 
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