My OH's quick solution to a flat tyre

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I have just established a big disadvantage of having identical (& cheap) bikes.

My OH had another flat tyre this morning (he didn't get around to fitting his new tyres at the weekend otherwise he would have noticed this). So instead of repairing it, he has switched out both wheels from my bike to his (we have different sized tyres) and left my bike in pieces in the dinning room.

Both bikes are identical other than size and have almost identical mileage and apparently his gear changing was "fine" and he has had no slipping chain.

Of course this now means I have to fix a flat tyre on someones elses wheels before I can go for a bike ride!

bar humbug

 

[Pat "5mph"]

 

[thelawnet]

Grounds for divorce.

 

[potsy]

I do like a cunning plan

 

[thelawnet]

a cunning stunt.

 

[potsy]

If God really is a woman then he'll get multiple punctures on the way home

 

[summerdays]

Ingenious (kind of wish I had thought of that sort of thing myself - normally I just nick his bike instead (even if it is the wrong size, it saves the bother of changing wheels).

(Actually Mr Summerdays wouldn't find that so easy to do - I've got locking skewers on my bike so he would have to ask for the key to them to steal them in the first place).

 

[musa]

You could always swap something off his plate at dinner

Just saying

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

... - normally I just nick his bike instead (even if it is the wrong size, it saves the bother of changing wheels)....

I used to do the same with his mtb, just swapping out the seat post, but he would be at work and at the time did not cycle to work, so it was not in use... and I would always have to fix my own flat tyre when I got home.

Still haven't fixed it, and now have my chain simmering in a pan of oil instead!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

If God really is a woman then he'll get multiple punctures on the way home

not on my tyres please! I was hoping to have the wheels back tonight, in one piece. Let him have the fairy visit tomorrow when he can't pull that stunt because I have to cycle to physio!

 

[Arjimlad]

To help us chaps out here, can you explain how taken for granted this made you feel, and how you would like your husband to make it up to you ? Or is this the last straw ?

 

[Archie_tect]

If God really is a woman then he'll get multiple punctures on the way home

But then he'd simply swap his wheels back again....

 

[byegad]

Touch my wheels and die! Never mind divorce or complaining!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

To help us chaps out here, can you explain how taken for granted this made you feel, and how you would like your husband to make it up to you ? Or is this the last straw ?

taken for granted - goes without saying, especially as I have been up for the last 2 nights unable to sleep from asthma attacks becuase it is the time of year that for some reason everyone lights really big fires and stands around them watching sulphur compounds explode in the air thinking isn't that great!
how he can make it up? anyones guess but at least not expecting me to fix his flat tyre for him (again, same tyre different place, different cause) after I have cooked his evening meal and after I offered to cycle to his work yesterday with his sandwiches he had left at home.
last straw? No, it will be 16 years at Christmas and I did used to just take his entire bike (when he was not using it) if I had a flat first thing in the early hours, but I worked set shifts and had to be on-time, he worked and still works flexy time and no-one will bat an eye lid over him arriving late after changing a flat, so given I used to take his bike rather than get into trouble at work, I can probably forgive him, I just get the impression he is expecting me to repair the flat and change both tyres for him to the new ones which when I did my bike (mine first becuase he complained last time I always tested things first on his bike!) it took an hour per tyre to convince the new blighters to go on.

It's give and take, I just really don't feel like fighting with his new tyres after 2 days of no sleep! but a nice box of chocs would be a good start!

 

[Arjimlad]

He's a lucky fella - bring on the choccies then !

Perhaps he thinks you need the practice if it took an hour per tyre last time ?