Saturday night at 10:30 PM we were heading home from a family get-together when I had my wife drop me off at the client's office where one of my bikes was still on the rack after Wednesday's ER trip caused me not to ride home that day. Thankfully my badge worked that late at night on a weekend and I was able to finish the commute I had started three days prior.

Friday evening on the way home I started feeling a pulse coming from the rear of the bike. The closer to home I got, the more pronounced the pulse became. When I got into my garage I threw my bike up on my repair stand and noticed that my rear tire was starting to develop a bulge in the sidewall. Glad I found it before it stranded me somewhere out on the road. I got about 3800 miles out of that tire so I can't complain too loud.

Last night I replaced the tire. The new one went on really, really hard. In fact it went on so hard that I worry that if have a flat out on the road I won't be able to fix it. In my garage I had a workbench that kept me from having to bend over for the 1/2 hour I struggled to get it mounted. I also had access to soap. Out on the road neither of these things would be readily available.

This morning was 48°F and more rain. We're only a few inches behind having the wettest year on record, with almost three months to go. Supposed to rain through Wednesday so we may hit the record before the week's end.