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Monday Aug 22, 2016 #
Note
"There were Americans everywhere" as wind blows 1,500 U.S. partiers to Canada.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/floatdown-sa...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/floatdown-sa...
10 AM
Mountain Biking (Trail) 1:54:08 [3] 25.76 km (13.5 kph) +372m
slept:6.0
I rode to Albion Hills to meet Dee in beautiful, non-heat-wave weather. She is strong on the bike so it was hard work for me, which was awesome. I haven't seen her since Italy and it was great to chat.
We had a 3-hour ride planned but unfortunately I got a flat when we were at the north end of Palgrave Conservation Area. I've had very few flats in my life and am not quick to fix them. It would be like watching a video in slow motion so I didn't want to put Dee through it. I pumped the tire up and we rode to our place which, luckily, was just 1 km away. I drove Dee and her bike back to Albion Hills - so sad to bail but we'd had a pretty good ride.
I timed my flat tire fix and it's safe to say that Team Sky will not be hiring me anytime soon: 18 minutes!!! However, I found a tiny thorn embedded in my tire so I resolved both the symptom *and* the root cause of the problem. For someone with extremely basic bike repair skills, that counts as a huge win. I even got the bike computer working again!
UPDATE: 'Bent just came in the front door and said, "Your front tire is flat." Ugh.
UPDATE 2: Dr. 'Bent diagnosed a small puncture in the tube I installed. I was super careful to avoid a pinch flat so my guess is that the spare tube got damaged over the years of riding around in the seat pack with other tools. It's the same spare tube I carried at Tierra Viva in 2013 so it's been around a long time. Glad I used it today when it didn't matter.
We had a 3-hour ride planned but unfortunately I got a flat when we were at the north end of Palgrave Conservation Area. I've had very few flats in my life and am not quick to fix them. It would be like watching a video in slow motion so I didn't want to put Dee through it. I pumped the tire up and we rode to our place which, luckily, was just 1 km away. I drove Dee and her bike back to Albion Hills - so sad to bail but we'd had a pretty good ride.
I timed my flat tire fix and it's safe to say that Team Sky will not be hiring me anytime soon: 18 minutes!!! However, I found a tiny thorn embedded in my tire so I resolved both the symptom *and* the root cause of the problem. For someone with extremely basic bike repair skills, that counts as a huge win. I even got the bike computer working again!
UPDATE: 'Bent just came in the front door and said, "Your front tire is flat." Ugh.
UPDATE 2: Dr. 'Bent diagnosed a small puncture in the tube I installed. I was super careful to avoid a pinch flat so my guess is that the spare tube got damaged over the years of riding around in the seat pack with other tools. It's the same spare tube I carried at Tierra Viva in 2013 so it's been around a long time. Glad I used it today when it didn't matter.