A Jamestown football team have thanked a Dumbarton family for ensuring a fundraising cycle didn’t fall flat - despite a puncture.
Players from Jamestown Juniors’ 2010s team were completing a challenging 20-mile return trip from Balloch to Bowling last month to raise funds for the club, when a puncture for one of the players looked set to derail their progress.
However a Crosslet Road family came to the players’ aid, as coach Steven Bradley explained.
He said: “We’ve just started 11-a-side competitive football this season and we were doing a sponsored cycle to raise club funds.
“We were cycling from Balloch to Bowling, then from Bowling back to Balloch along the cycle path.
“When we got to Dumbarton we had to come off the cycle path and through the town. We were pedalling along Crosslet Road when one of the players got a puncture on his front tyre.
“We thought we’d have to go down to Halfords and get a puncture repair kit. But the next thing we knew, a woman came out from one of the houses we were stood in front of.
“She asked us what the problem was and we explained it. She invited us in out the rain, but I said we were already soaked so it was fine.
“Then she said she’d go and look for a puncture repair kit for us, which was smashing.
“But she came back out with her son. He said he’d fix the puncture and give us a loan of a bike to let us continue.
“He came out with this really impressive bike and gave it to one of my players so he could continue.
“That let us complete the cycle, and then we were able to pop back to collect the bike that was fixed and swap them over. It was absolutely brilliant.”
And Steven said: “There aren’t many people who would go the extra mile like that to help out someone they didn’t know.”
Jamestown Juniors 2010s are always on the lookout for new players. Visit the club on Facebook or contact Steven on Stevent_bradley@sky.com.
