Tales from today's commute....

[Alex321]

Annoying one this morning.

I have a slow puncture in my rear tyre, which has meant pumping it up every 2-3 days for the last couple of weeks. Had no chance to fix it last weekend, was going to do it this weekend, but it seems to have become rather less "slow", and I needed to pump it up twice on the hour long commute this morning. I do have a decent mini-pump always on the bike, so it wasn't too onerous a task.

We do have a bike maintenance station in the bike room in this office, so I'll pop down at lunchtime and swap the tube, though it can be a pain getting the (marathon+) tyres on and off.

 

[Mazz]

Annoying one this morning.

I have a slow puncture in my rear tyre, which has meant pumping it up every 2-3 days for the last couple of weeks. Had no chance to fix it last weekend, was going to do it this weekend, but it seems to have become rather less "slow", and I needed to pump it up twice on the hour long commute this morning. I do have a decent mini-pump always on the bike, so it wasn't too onerous a task.

We do have a bike maintenance station in the bike room in this office, so I'll pop down at lunchtime and swap the tube, though it can be a pain getting the (marathon+) tyres on and off.

Hopefully tyre comes off/on relatively easily.
Lunchtime repairs can be a bit hit-and-miss w.r.t. time spent, in my experience!

 

[Alex321]

Hopefully tyre comes off/on relatively easily.
Lunchtime repairs can be a bit hit-and-miss w.r.t. time spent, in my experience!

I know. Just hoping this one is reasonably quick.

 

[Alex321]

I know. Just hoping this one is reasonably quick.

Actually nice and smooth. Though I now know the gauge on the traack pump at the maintenance stand is not remotely accurate. It was showing way less than my "thumb test" would suggest I'd got into it.

 

[HLaB]

Pretty quiet PM Commute with the only chaos on exit from the train station which the bike bypasses down the middle of the road (Friday chaos usually spills further, it was just busy in the city centre and not the usual chaos).

 

[Alex321]

Actually nice and smooth. Though I now know the gauge on the traack pump at the maintenance stand is not remotely accurate. It was showing way less than my "thumb test" would suggest I'd got into it.

And the replaced tube stayed up and fully hard all the way home

Traffic on the small rural roads part of the commute was bonkers though. No close passes or anything nasty, just about 7-10 times as many vehicles as usual. I suspect there may have been a road closed somewhere, though I didn't see any diversion signs.