I got my first pinch flat and...
05-09-12, 08:17 PM
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Throw the stick!!!!
I'm sure you are right.
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05-11-12, 08:46 AM
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even I know this. 
edit: yesterday i was going down my normal road....a fairly busy commuter road with three lanes each direction and a bike lane. being such a busy road it's normal to have debris in the bike lane. but all of a sudden i hear the sound of a spoke popping out right as i feel a sharp pain on my ass. I immediately stop and look over the bike....no missing or bent spokes, all with good tension.
then i noticed a 1mm thick piece of steel wire wrapped around my rear wheel. THAT's what i'd ran over.....it smacked me in the ass as it was wrapping around the rear axle. stung like hell, and a constant stream of cursing as i got it unraveled and off the bike was emitted.
the worst part was that this happened just AFTER i dodged a piece of a broom from a street-sweeper. i was contemplating the irony as i hit the length of wire. *smacks head*
edit: yesterday i was going down my normal road....a fairly busy commuter road with three lanes each direction and a bike lane. being such a busy road it's normal to have debris in the bike lane. but all of a sudden i hear the sound of a spoke popping out right as i feel a sharp pain on my ass. I immediately stop and look over the bike....no missing or bent spokes, all with good tension.
then i noticed a 1mm thick piece of steel wire wrapped around my rear wheel. THAT's what i'd ran over.....it smacked me in the ass as it was wrapping around the rear axle. stung like hell, and a constant stream of cursing as i got it unraveled and off the bike was emitted.
the worst part was that this happened just AFTER i dodged a piece of a broom from a street-sweeper. i was contemplating the irony as i hit the length of wire. *smacks head*
05-11-12, 09:53 AM
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I can beat that. When I first got a road bike, I had no idea about the proper air pressure for road bike tubes. I kept getting flats. Finally, just before a triathlon I was competing in, I had to take my bike to a mechanic and happened to be watching him as he continued to fill my tires at a pressure far, far higher than I would have imagined. Turns out, I was stopping at about 40-45 psi. I was going by what I used to do with my bike as a kid. That is, fill with air until the tire felt "full". My friends had quite a laugh over it considering all the *****ing I had been doing about buying new tubes. None of them had imagined that I didn't know how to fill up a road bike tire.
05-11-12, 10:43 AM
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I can beat that. When I first got a road bike, I had no idea about the proper air pressure for road bike tubes. I kept getting flats. Finally, just before a triathlon I was competing in, I had to take my bike to a mechanic and happened to be watching him as he continued to fill my tires at a pressure far, far higher than I would have imagined. Turns out, I was stopping at about 40-45 psi. I was going by what I used to do with my bike as a kid. That is, fill with air until the tire felt "full". My friends had quite a laugh over it considering all the *****ing I had been doing about buying new tubes. None of them had imagined that I didn't know how to fill up a road bike tire.
