Originally Posted by dog hair
please post your stories of roadside improvisation! it may help somebody one of these days.
Well, so far, fortunately for me and for my being female I guess, knights-in-shiny-jersey-armor have always aided in dire situations (I got my arm warmers caught and wedged in my crank - thank goodness I was going uphill at the time! - and a male cyclist I was with pulled it out and straightened the crank and chain using brute force). Although I have changed my own flats several times - but nothing needed other than the usual tools.