goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
... is when you've done your back in and bending / crouching is agonising.
Happened to me yesterday and made my back much worse. This morning I had trouble bending enough to put my socks on! I swithered as to whether to ride to work or not but in the end I decided that I would; being on the bike eases the pain somewhat.
Guess what? Got another puncture en-route near Fettes Police HQ, made worse by:
1. The brand new tube I put in firing the valve innards way off into the dark when I was pulling the pump off after getting the tyre back up to riding pressure. Left me with a tube with a hollow metal tube poking out of it...
2. Realising that my other spare tube was still holed as I hadn't patched it at home last night because my back was too sore (I just lay on the sofa with my back against a hot water bottle feeling sorry for myself!).
3. The lampost I was working under going off just when I really needed to see what I was doing.
4. The rain starting just as I was attempting to dry the rubber solution to patch the holed tube.
5. Realising that the fold-down foot on the Road Morph pump has fallen off somewhere since the previous day.
Still, managed it all in the end and then slowly straightened by back up to a standing position so I could wheel the bike back into the road and get on it. Made it the rest of the way without any further incident.
A big raspberry to all of the joggers / cyclists / police who passed me over the course of 25 minutes and never once checked to see if I was OK / needed a hand (despite me hobbling about like a cripple and struggling to stand up after squatting over the wheel as I put the tyre back on the rim). *Harrumph*
Happened to me yesterday and made my back much worse. This morning I had trouble bending enough to put my socks on! I swithered as to whether to ride to work or not but in the end I decided that I would; being on the bike eases the pain somewhat.
Guess what? Got another puncture en-route near Fettes Police HQ, made worse by:
1. The brand new tube I put in firing the valve innards way off into the dark when I was pulling the pump off after getting the tyre back up to riding pressure. Left me with a tube with a hollow metal tube poking out of it...
2. Realising that my other spare tube was still holed as I hadn't patched it at home last night because my back was too sore (I just lay on the sofa with my back against a hot water bottle feeling sorry for myself!).
3. The lampost I was working under going off just when I really needed to see what I was doing.
4. The rain starting just as I was attempting to dry the rubber solution to patch the holed tube.
5. Realising that the fold-down foot on the Road Morph pump has fallen off somewhere since the previous day.
Still, managed it all in the end and then slowly straightened by back up to a standing position so I could wheel the bike back into the road and get on it. Made it the rest of the way without any further incident.
A big raspberry to all of the joggers / cyclists / police who passed me over the course of 25 minutes and never once checked to see if I was OK / needed a hand (despite me hobbling about like a cripple and struggling to stand up after squatting over the wheel as I put the tyre back on the rim). *Harrumph*
My bike was at Napier Uni; the back roads were treacherous so I lifted my bike up the stairs to Colinton Road, whilst doing so I failed to spot the drawing pin somebody had left for me 
Changing a tube at -4 deg isnt that fun. Looking on the bright side it had been over 7000miles since my last pture on that bike I hope its 7000 till the next. Oh an it might be a coincidence but for the last year I'd been carrying a presta spare (the tyres are actually Schrader) and had finally bought a spare shrader tube and a couple of weeks later that happens.
