Made $40 for a locked up wheel.
07-09-09, 10:46 PM
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Made $40 for a locked up wheel.
So I was out on a short ride (10 miles) just cruising and all of the sudden my back wheel locks up. So I come to a skid stop, and look. One of my back bolts became lose enough for the tire to slide out of alignment, so here I am. 5 miles from my house on an old country road with no tool to fix it. So I start walking toward to closest neighborhood to see if I could score a wrench (I love southern hospitality). Anyways on my way I run into a golden retreiver just running about loose in the road, so I call him/her over. So now it's me with a bike on my back and a dog walking down a country road.
Walked a mile and a half before we get to the closest neighborhood. I get to the neighborhood try like 3 houses before I get answer at the door, and to my surprise that was their dog. It had gone missing earlier. So I got a wrench to fix my bike and they gave me $40 for finding their dog. Pretty legit.
Walked a mile and a half before we get to the closest neighborhood. I get to the neighborhood try like 3 houses before I get answer at the door, and to my surprise that was their dog. It had gone missing earlier. So I got a wrench to fix my bike and they gave me $40 for finding their dog. Pretty legit.
07-09-09, 10:53 PM
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Man, last time I found a dog the lady accused me of stealing it. I had talked to her husband on the phone and then when I got there it was just his bat-**** insane wife waiting for me.
07-10-09, 01:07 AM
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07-10-09, 07:44 AM
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I agree, I don't leave home without my Pedro's Trixie. Case in point, yesterday. Putting air in my GF's tire going for a ride. Tip pops off the valve, replace the tube and head down the road. She "hops" a curb and pinch flats the front tire. I replace it only to hear her rear tire deflating slowly. We head back home, I fix the rear tire and we ride to pizza. tools are good.
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That's awesome bro. Yeah I always feel sketchy not having tools on my fg, but I don 't feel like buying a trixie tool. I guess it would be handy to have it attached to the water bottle mounts, though. On my road bike, I have a saddle bag w/ everything I need to fix my bike, but the FG is a diff. story.
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Jesus, it's not like he was stranded in the desert or something.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
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I agree, I don't leave home without my Pedro's Trixie. Case in point, yesterday. Putting air in my GF's tire going for a ride. Tip pops off the valve, replace the tube and head down the road. She "hops" a curb and pinch flats the front tire. I replace it only to hear her rear tire deflating slowly. We head back home, I fix the rear tire and we ride to pizza. tools are good.
