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Old 04-03-10 | 09:39 AM
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Bikes: Three road bikes. Two track bikes.

Oh, you are so dead to rights now. You've angered the flat gods. In fact, you've issued a direct challenge. Silly little man. Bring two spare tubes and a spare tire with you on all rides until you've made the proper sacrifices.

This is how those horrifying strings of flats get started. Like my 5-flats-in-5-days stretch a couple years ago that started with me running over a razor blade on a commute on a Friday, continued on the other side of the weekend with a Monday where I suffered three flats and was down to gluing patches in the rain, and finished with a staple through my tire on Tuesday which resulted in me giving up and walking the mile and a half back to the car.

Be afraid, be very afraid.
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