Originally Posted by
TexLex100
Today I went to my pre-dawn daily short ride. Ten minutes into it I noticed the bike to be acting weird and becoming very heavy. I checked and my rear wheel was flat. The fact that it was pitch dark in the trail, and the fact that I never changed a tire before, led me me to concede. Bummer!
I am sorry for your having the flat but it was actually a good thing for me. I haven't started riding yet (December 25 or 26 is target date....when Santa delivers the bicycle in my garage) and have been concerned about two things, falling and flats. I will strive to avoid the former but am sure the latter will happen. And I have no idea how to change a flat on today's bicycles. That rear wheel scares me with all the drive train back there (my bikes used for newspaper routes didn't have all that fancy stuff like gears). But your bad luck was my good luck because DnvrFox said:
Originally Posted by
DnvrFox
There are Youtube videos on changing tires and fixing flats
Which I had not even thought of. First trip to the LBS after Christmas I will gift myself a "kit" for fixing flats and watch the videos first. But I do have a question in getting the kit together. What kind of PSI can you reach with the CO2 devices?
Thanks to both of you.