It's all in the timing.

[jbsegal]

So, 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. :)

Comments

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

Do I want to know why bulletproof tires are good in your area? I mean, who aims for the tires?

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Bullets, not so much of a problem. Nails, glass, staples, caltrops, man-eating potholes, and so on, those are the real dangers.