Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 13,501
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From: Boston-ish, MA
Bikes: 72 Peugeot UO-8, 82 Peugeot TH8, 87 Bianchi Brava, 76? Masi Grand Criterium, 74 Motobecane Champion Team, 86 & 77 Gazelle champion mondial, 81? Grandis, 82? Tommasini, 83 Peugeot PF10
Okay, I've had a few recently. Had a sew-up flat a few weeks ago, couldn't get Stan's to work. Been saving ujp tires to send to Tire Alert so it was time.
Earlier this week I rode a clincher bike to work. On the way home I notice a liberated crank arm on the MM Bikeway. A hundred yards later I found the stricken bike, a Limebike rental. Whoever was on it at time just left it and didn't bother going back to find the crank arm. So I went back, picked up it, dropped it by the bike. Then my rear tire went flat. Here I was, trying to do the right thing and that's the thanks I get. It was a tiny curved thorn of metal, I think, as from the claw of a nano-sized robo-mouse. Swapped out the tube, will patch it when I get a free minute, probably next year some time.
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