Tales from today's commute....

[defy-one]

Yesterdays commute around 6.15pm,get scalped by a lovely woman on a road hybrid. She's fast,is wearing black shorts and has the cutest buns i have seen in a long time. Kept that view for a mile before we went our seperate ways ..... I was nearly asthmatic by this stage,but she was so worth it

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

Crikey, yesterday's commute was a bit eventful. I had what seemed like a non-stop barrage of tw@t attacks. The worst one didn't even involve me, it was a small red van left hooking a bus. Very impressed with that bus driver:

I like the bus fleet number why6.

Nice bus driver though.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

This morning's commute ended in a two mile walk due to a slab of glass becoming one with my rear tyre.

 

[ianrauk]

This morning's commute ended in a two mile walk due to a slab of glass becoming one with my rear tyre.

bollocks as the saying goes.

 

[BSRU]

I had some new toys for my Garmin to play with this morning, a cadence sensor and heart rate monitor.
For the whole ride just had heart rate/cadence displayed.
Average cadence of 89rpm and average heart rate of 141bpm, it was a nice easy ride with no real climbs.

 

[GrasB]

This morning's commute ended in a two mile walk due to a slab of glass becoming one with my rear tyre.

See this is why I find tubs great for commuting. You get a new tyre with every tube . However fixing punctures can be interesting.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

See this is why I find tubs great for commuting. You get a new tyre with every tube . However fixing punctures can be interesting.

Tubs?

 

[gaz]

Tubs?

A type of tyre mainly used for racing. A tubular tyre has no beads; instead, the two edges of the carcass are sewn together (hence the term "sew-up") with the inner tube inside. Tubulars fit only on special rims, where they are held on by cement.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Blimey! Cheers!

 

[gaz]

Had a nail embed in my tyre this morning which resulted in an instant flat. Wouldn't have minded if it was the front tyre, but no it had to be the rear. Which for some reason is impossible to get out of the horizontal drop outs

Took just over 10mins to replace the tube, pump it up and put everything back together BUT for some reason I couldn't get the non drive side of the axle to move in the drop out, which meant I couldn't get rid of the slack in my chain.

So I walked to the nearest bike shop (1 mile away) and they where closed.
Decided to do a quick fix on the bike so it was rideable and road the next half mile to the next bike shop. Luckily it was open, explained the issue and the guy fixed it straight away without any issues. I felt like such a wally.

Obviously me riding it for a bit loosened it up

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Mine is the rear tyre too, and I foolishly don't have a repair kit with me. I think I'm going to have to ask my wife to drop my track pump and repair kit off to me at work, oops.

 

[GrasB]

Tubs?

As gaz said. Except I wouldn't say 'special' rather 'different'. You can get tubs quite cheap
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=31585
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=31774
or you can go a bit further up market than the typical clincher (I recommend sitting down before opening the next 2 links)
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=82990
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=31772

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I'll look into it, but the last time I tried to upgrade my tyres I tried to buy Marathon Plus only to find out they don't make them for my ancient old wheels!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Found it!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Just in case anyone needs closure...

The shard of glass as so big it went right through the inner tube and made three holes. I used two patches and gradually increased the tyre pressure until it reached 90psi. I decided to leave the bike for a bit to make sure the patches were solid and wandered off to wash my hands. Then there was a BANG so loud that the MD ran down from his office thinking there had been an industrial accident!

I got a lift home from a colleague and I'll take a replacement tube in tomorrow. I really hope in haven't damaged the tyre (Scwalbe Marathon) and it got blown off the rim :/


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