Rented a bike yesterday from Epic Sports in Bismarck ND, a pretty nice Specialized Roubaix. Not overly fond of Sora, but generally speaking not a bad road bike. Did 40-ish miles up to Milepost 100 on the Lewis & Clark 1804, spent some time at Double Ditch (look it up, pretty cool place), then back down to Mandan. Five miles out from the store got a rear flat, luckily I had my own saddle bag with me and was able to replace the tube in a jiffy. Was some small piece of very fine wire/metal that had worked its way thru the casing and into the tube. Where does that crap come from? Anyhow, the shop was the recipient of a new tube on their rental bike and I had an excellent day. Good thing, too, as Mrs. Doc was in meetings all day and wouldn't have been able to come get me...