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[bentbike33]

@ShawnoftheDread 113580 wrote:

I hate you.

Let go your hate. Hate leads to anger, anger leads to suffering, …yadda, yadda, yadda, … Dark Side!

Try parody instead.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

@ShawnoftheDread 113580 wrote:

I hate you.

So no act of true love then? Bummer.

[Kolohe]

On Sunday afternoon, Mickey and Minnie Mouse were dancing the mosh pit in front of the stage by the paddleboat marina, so there might have been a general Disney thing going on with the festival.

[rcannon100]

Me: Crying at Trollheim. Just installed a new tube. It had blown. I didnt have a spare. And the previously new tube looked like rubbish.

Jerk: Jumping up and down on the boardwalk making my life miserable.

Me: “Do you have a tube on you?”

Jerk: “Ha ha ha ha Triathletes dont carry tubes.”

Me: “Yeah. Did you hear about all the accidents this weekend?”

Jerk: “Triathletes dont ride in road races where there are lots of accidents. Ba-Bye!”

Me: Continuing to try and patch my rubbish. “Yeah, bye Matt.”

Later, after second blow out.

Me: Crying, this time slowly walking to a bike shop.

OHBIKES GUY: Here’s a tube ~ pay it forward.

Some people are nice.

[ShawnoftheDread]

Matt was outside? I’m not buying this tale.

[Terpfan]

@rcannon100 113621 wrote:

Me: Crying at Trollheim. Just installed a new tube. It had blown. I didnt have a spare. And the previously new tube looked like rubbish.

Jerk: Jumping up and down on the boardwalk making my life miserable.

Me: “Do you have a tube on you?”

Jerk: “Ha ha ha ha Triathletes dont carry tubes.”

Me: “Yeah. Did you hear about all the accidents this weekend?”

Jerk: “Triathletes dont ride in road races where there are lots of accidents. Ba-Bye!”

Me: Continuing to try and patch my rubbish. “Yeah, bye Matt.”

Later, after second blow out.

Me: Crying, this time slowly walking to a bike shop.

OHBIKES GUY: Here’s a tube ~ pay it forward.

Some people are nice.

We need like a universal hand gesture to indicate “need a tube” sort of like a hitchhike. I usually carry one or two on me because every time I don’t, I get flats (literally, it’s Murphy’s Law to the extreme), but I don’t mind giving away if I know someone is screwed–especially if they’re not close to an LBS. I guess the flip side of this is I could ask people if they’re alright when stopped and fiddling with bikes, which I occasionally do, but I figure I’m not very mechanically-inclined so it’s usually pointless to stop.

[ShawnoftheDread]

Tubes get around. DCV gave a tube to Dismal, who gave it to me, and I gave it to a cyclist by the Key Bridge Marriott, who actually used it.

[dasgeh]

Us: family enjoying the BEAUTIFUL weekend weather, and exploring the steep part of the Donaldson Run train by coming down from 26th Street.
You: glue in our patch kit

We made it safely down the trail (but no, I’m not going to take a Kidical Mass ride down there. Wow). And right when I got to the flat, paved section, the front of the bakfiets gets all wonky, and I realize that I’ve got a flat. (Yes, pavement condition here leaves something to be desired). Fine, the kids can sit in the shade, look at the stream and the dogs and have their snack. We can use the patch kit to fix the flat… Unless the patch kit is out of glue

Luckily, “we” included two adults and two bikes that could carry both kids. And my husband is awesome and let me take the kids to church while he dealt with getting the bike home and getting a working patch on the bike. But, PS, double check your patch kits every once in a while. Sometimes you need them.

[jabberwocky]

@dasgeh 113699 wrote:

But, PS, double check your patch kits every once in a while. Sometimes you need them.

I use the park glueless patches because they are simpler to carry, but they only serve as a backup to the extra tube I don’t leave home without. :p

[hozn]

Yeah, I dont carry patch kits with glue because the glue dries out as soon as it is opened. So they are effectively one-time use (unless you get flats often, I suppose). I was skeptical, but am very happy with the Park Tool stick-on ones, they got me home after I double flatted pulling my son home the other week.

Now I keep an extra 700c tube (in addition to the 20″ tube) in the trailer too.

[vern]

My cycling shorts.

I had a dental appt this morning, so I carried an extra pair of shorts with me so that I could change when I got there and not trash up their office with my wet, gritty shorts. My alarm didn’t go off so I was running late, and was doing multiple things while changing. I hung the shorts up on a hook in the men’s room, got distracted, and left. I remembered what I’d done after the appointment, went back and looked, but alas, the shorts were gone. Checked the building’s lost and found – not there. I’m guessing the janitor tossed them.

[dasgeh]

@jabberwocky 113704 wrote:

the extra tube

You don’t ride an ebike with hydraulic brakes. I think the other kit we had had the stick ons and they work fine.

[Drewdane]

It didn’t bother me when you passed me. You called your pass, all was good.

It didn’t bother me when you didn’t pull away after passing me. I mean, I’m not sure why you bothered to pass me in the first place, but whatevs.

But did you really have to fart?

[jabberwocky]

@dasgeh 113744 wrote:

You don’t ride an ebike with hydraulic brakes. I think the other kit we had had the stick ons and they work fine.

Is removing the wheel difficult (I genuinely don’t know)? I generally assume patching a tube requires getting it out of the tire anyway, so swapping a tube isn’t any more effort. In fact, if I’m commuting and I get a flat, I generally just swap the tube because it saves me trying to find the puncture and everything. Though I do check the tire either way to see if something is still sticking through. Then I inspect the tube at home and decide if its worth patching.

I keep a seat bag with a small multi-tool, an extra tube and half a dozen glueless patches in it on the road bike at all times. I’ve had good luck with those park glueless patches. The only failures I’ve ever had were large pinch flats (slices) that I probably shouldn’t even have tried to patch in the first place.

[dasgeh]

@jabberwocky 113749 wrote:

Is removing the wheel difficult (I genuinely don’t know)?

Yes. I don’t know why you would patch if you can get the wheel all the way off (unless you’re on a long trip and can’t carry enough tubes or something), but with funky set ups, that’s not always an option. We can get the tire unseated and the tube out, which allows patching.

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