+1.

I've changed thousands of tires/tubes/flats (no exaggeration) and it pains me to stand there for 10 minutes watching someone fumble with their bike.

I've inserted myself in the process countless times unless the person already doing the job really has it under control and is going about it with a sense of urgency and not flapping their gums and moving in slow motion.

I would cause you great pain. It might take me that long just to get the tyre off.

No it wouldn't. I would have comandered the operation long before then all the while chatting you up about some thing or another.

: Lp

The only thing missing from this story is a banjo duel.

That's essentially what happened the last time I got a flat way out and had to change it (too far out to get a ride or walk home). In a fortuitous development, another cyclist came by right as I pulled off the road and did a sympathy change for me after witnessing my a minute of pitiful technique.

I wish I had a Nascar pit crew to change my tires when they go flat. Maybe you should ask them to go get your water bottles, since you're so helpless.

you should have asked the guy who fixed your flat what the frack was took him so long. you could have done it in half the time.

Some guys would rather fix a flat (or offer unsolicited advice on how to fix a flat) than ride their bikes.

I'm more than happy to let someone fix my flats for me. Gives me a chance to go pee, eat some food in peace, and relax for a bit.

I'm with Pedaleur. Also I ride with this guy


there's one in every group, two in some.

Add this to the long list of reasons why I mostly ride alone.

I would have been glad to let some people try to fix my tubie flat in a race last weekend...but that didn't happen, and had no spare wheel in the truck..so I got a free ride back to the start/finish line and called it a day. I'm not the kind who likes to take other people's wheels from the trucks they planned for, and I didn't, unlike some people around here.