Last Friday I had friends waiting to go to dinner with me and my eldest boy so of course...I got a flat on the way home - turns out a previous patch failed. I threw in the spare tube - the previous patches failed. After cursing slime tubes up, down and sideways, I verrrry carefully cleaned the first tube and patched it again. That patch held. Once I got home I dug up a new tube for my backup spare. I was all set to stop using slime tubes, but I went mountain biking this weekend with a friend. His front tire was flat before we headed out, so I patched it up - he had three pinhole leaks caused by three tiny thorns. On the outing, he went flat again (no it wasn't my patches). We just topped it off periodically using my road morph pump and he was fine - but it meant he'd picked up a few more pinhole leaks. Going over the exact same terrain with the same model bike and tires, I didn't get a single leak. So I guess slime tubes are a mixed blessing. From here on out I'll just carry a new tube or two and try to avoid patching slime tubes until I'm somewhere where I can really clean up the tubes before patching them
Today when I was biking in to work I saw an owl on the bike lane. It was around 4am when I was riding next to the indian reservation. Much coolness.