Originally Posted by
tjspiel
How do you get around when your bike is unavailable?
Any bike shops nearby with a "salvage yard"? There are a couple near here. One has a basement full old parts. If you could locate a shop like that, you might be able to find a tire or two for a few bucks that would tide you over until you can get something better. Is the old tire completely shot? Seems I magically end up with a couple spares laying around. Maybe a contact at a shop could hook you up with an old tire some customer wanted to replace? Seems like a shame to be stranded when I'm sure there's a million used tires out there that would otherwise get tossed.
Your transition weather might not last as long as it does here so maybe it's not such a big deal. Missing the transition weather in Minneapolis would mean skipping March and April. Seems like we got an early start on Spring this year but one never knows.
Its been so long since we've had "normal" weather that follows the seasons that I can't predict what is going on or what will happen till the more certain brutal heat that has become the norm in July.
I have a nimbus and drifter that I can toss on the rear wheel, but the drifter is low psi and rather slippy slick inverted tread, and the nimbus has a more front wheel tread vs a traction oriented tread. Going to have shop send the kenda back to manufacturer see if they'll replace it or what. The other two also don't have reflective sidewall strip, which is vital for riding in dark.
- Andy