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It's all in the timing.
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dancingdeer and I were riding home from doing a couple of quick errands after dinner on Friday evening. We'd just turned from Cedar onto Elm and there was a sound like a firecracker going off behind me and my ride gets soggy, for want of a better word.
Eventually it got through my consciousness that my rear tire'd blown.
Luckily, we were only about 2 blocks from Ace Wheelworks. Unluckily, it was 8:30, so they were closed. Ah well. We locked up the bike on the rack outside the store and went on with the evening.
The next day, we went back over there, I bought new tires and tubes and swapped them out outside.
The timing is in the fact that, had this happened 6 days earlier, we might well have been in the middle of the woods, between Bedford and Concord, on a narrow dirt track miles from a bike shop.
This was a much better option.
(The new tires are Specialized Nimbus Armadillos. They seem to have good reviews as being nearly bulletproof, which is important around here. :)
dancingdeer and I were riding home from doing a couple of quick errands after dinner on Friday evening. We'd just turned from Cedar onto Elm and there was a sound like a firecracker going off behind me and my ride gets soggy, for want of a better word.Eventually it got through my consciousness that my rear tire'd blown.
Luckily, we were only about 2 blocks from Ace Wheelworks. Unluckily, it was 8:30, so they were closed. Ah well. We locked up the bike on the rack outside the store and went on with the evening.
The next day, we went back over there, I bought new tires and tubes and swapped them out outside.
The timing is in the fact that, had this happened 6 days earlier, we might well have been in the middle of the woods, between Bedford and Concord, on a narrow dirt track miles from a bike shop.
This was a much better option.
(The new tires are Specialized Nimbus Armadillos. They seem to have good reviews as being nearly bulletproof, which is important around here. :)
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My former boss was very big on Kevlar tires. When it's time to replace mine I may look into them.