My last post here for the evening although there are more lined up. Reached into my bag for my spare tube after I'd torn the valve stem with over-zealous road pumping. Unrolled it and discovered a schraeder valve I'd somehow bought and gotten mixed in with my presta stuff. So near and yet so far. A passing cyclist some minutes later took pity on me.
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..... "I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time." Mark Twain, Speeches
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