In article <[email hidden]>,
Quoted message said:I don't know why, but there are a lot more thorns on the road than
usual this Fall. Fall is the season when the thorns and thistles lie
insidiously on the road. You can't see them, so you can't avoid them.
When you return from a 30-mile ride, you have about 4 thorns in your
tires, which are slowly deflating, even though you thought you had been
wiping them off regularly as you rode. You have to carry 2 spare
tubes, plus patches and glue, in order to be sure you can finish the
ride. I've bought a lot of tubes recently. Someday I am going to fix
the punctured ones.
Maybe you could get a bunch of other riders
together and throw a tube-patching bee.
Refreshments, canapes/deli platter/nachos/
hot wings/pizza, some of those big bottles
of rubber cement with the built-in brush
under the lid (kept far away from the food
of course,) washtub full of water to find
those tiny pinhole punctures, ball game on
the TV or some good tunes on the sound system ...
Making a party out of it might take the
sting out of the inconvenience & hassle
of dealing with all those punctures. It
might even motivate yez all to actually
patch a bunch of punctured tubes. Or not ;-)
cheers,
Tom
--
-- Nothing is safe from me.
Above address is just a spam midden.
I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca