pedwards89
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Slightly off topic. Out for a bimble yesterday, I saw a guy pushing his bike p quite a steep hill. So in the spirit of biker comraderie I pulled over to see if I could help. He was a young guy maybe 20ish puffing & blowing at the exertion of pushing the bike uphill. It was only a tiddler, a Honda 125, but man you just new his calf muscles were burning & his lungs aching.
'Anything I can do to help?'
'No, it's OK thanks mate. I've run out of petrol, but there's a filling station just up the road.'
So I rode off. I kept going up this hill, it was several minutes later that I passed the petrol station. Admitedly the last few hundred yards were downhill, but it was still a good two or three miles. Why would you turn down the offer of help, so you could continue to push a dead bike uphill?
'Anything I can do to help?'
'No, it's OK thanks mate. I've run out of petrol, but there's a filling station just up the road.'
So I rode off. I kept going up this hill, it was several minutes later that I passed the petrol station. Admitedly the last few hundred yards were downhill, but it was still a good two or three miles. Why would you turn down the offer of help, so you could continue to push a dead bike uphill?