Top tips
By crispyduck (Fri Jan 06, 2006 at 10:48:44 AM EST) ( all tags)
on the topics of Bromptons, mud and trespassing.
- Brompton + muddy canal path + darkness = bad idea
- Once on a canal path, you may be on it for some time without the option of an easy exit.
- When using a dynamo-lit bike on rough ground where you might have to slow down for tricky bits, make sure the dynamo has a standlight.
- Mudguards fill up quite easily, this may prevent wheels from turning.
- Nobody's going to come and pick you up when you're half way along a canal path.
- It's quite hard to navigate in the dark when you don't know where you're going and you have no map.
- If you've given up all hope of knowing where you are or where you're going, and you can see / hear a nearby main road, but the route to the road is marked as private property... well... you know what to do.
- When you find your way onto the private grounds of a manor house, expect large iron gates barring your exit.
- Bromptons are remarkably convenient for folding up and pushing under barbed wire fences. Thick winter gloves and nearby trees are very useful when climbing over said fences.
- There are things called roads, and good reasons why they were built.
Full discussion: http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2006/1/6/104844/1595
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