Because the pump i have can only put about 60 psi in. Obviously i can't take my track pump. I take tubes hoping someone will be kind and do the tube swap for me.
I would show you how to do it!
By coincidence ... I did the Red Rose Ride to Glasson Dock with another rider once and my riding partner got a puncture just as we got to the top of the small hill before the descent to Conder Green.
I hopped off my bike and told him that I was diving behind the hedge for an emergency pee (I had been hanging on until the cafe stop).
When I reemerged he was standing beside his bike which still had a very unfixed flat tyre. I asked why he wasn't fixing it and he told me that he didn't know how to! I was very surprised, but he told me that despite having been cycling for several years, that was his first ever puncture! I told him that he could take his time and I would show him what to do.
It took him about twice as long as it would have taken me, but I think it was a very useful learning opportunity. There are fantastic roads in that area and on some of them you could get no mobile reception, be miles from a call box (do they even exist any more?!), miles from even a farm building, and wait hours to see another person. You would have a very long wait or a very long walk with your bike if you couldn't fix a flat tyre!
The answer to the inability to carry the track pump on the bike is to buy a smaller version of one. I am not talking about a typical 'mini-pump' - it is hard to get a decent tyre pressure using most of them. Buy something like a
Topeak mini-morph. I have a
Halfords clone of one of them and have no problem getting 90+ psi out of it.
Well the management has issued me with a passout for the day, so I'd like to tag along, if I may.
104km is unknown territory for me, so I'll probably turn back early, depending on the state of the legs. If I'm not there for the kickoff, don't wait
Looking forward to meeting you chaps.
Welcome, Oldfentiger! We will be riding slowly so you should be okay as long as you eat and drink enough. We expect a tailwind up the hardest climb, the Trough of Bowland, so that will take the edge off it. The ride from there to Glasson Dock is easy because there is an awful lot of downhill. Take a look at the videos taken on my 2014 'Back from the dead' ride and you will get an idea of what to expect!
