Anyone else have Good Samaritans who stop to help with your bike?

[deeaimond]

One night I was riding with a friend and my BB jammed up so we were stuck in the middle of nowhere. It was a small narrow two lane road, and we were waving at people like crazy but everyone just zoomed by. And these were all trucks. Sigh. I had to call my dad to come pick me up and send me back to uni. Usually if my dad is driving we always stop and ask if we see people who need help (sometimes even foreign workers who are walking a long distance back to their lodgings), so its not too easy to fathom pple who drive but can't stop to help people in obvious need.

Oh but i've had people obviously slow down and drive behind me while I negotiate a more complicated spot of traffic. In a way helping me block the traffic behind and its a particularly nice feeling.

[Cataboo]

I've had men pause (in bikes or in cars) to ask if I'm okay when I've stopped at the top of a hill to rest, or if I stop to take photos. I can't say that I've had a female do it, but I do see less females out cycling in general.

Anytime I've had a flat - I've always had the tools to fix it, and while noone's stopped to help, I don't actually need it. Anytime I've had a flat car tire on the highway, guys have stopped to help - which I usually say, it's okay I've got it, and then I let them change it when they insist.

I usually at least pause to offer help if I see someone in bike distress.

I did end up walking home 7 miles after my chain broke once (I didn't have a spare pin, and wasn't confident that I could jury rig it when it was dark and I was in the middle of nowhere) without anyone stopping to help - I think a minivan was about to, but I think she noticed I was on my cell phone.

I did decide to walk that 7 miles home on the highway in the dark (direct flat route home instead of via rural hilly farmland), so I can't really expect someone to have seen me and realized I needed help.


I crashed once and had fairly bad (okay, my first case so for me it was bad) road rash, had warped my wheel, and sent my friend to bike back & get a car because I really wasn't equipped to true the wheel and we were only 2 miles or so from home... I decided to start walking back instead of just sitting on the side of the road, and had helpful motorcyclists shouting at me "why don't you ride that thing?"