Attack of the Tacks!
06-18-12 | 11:19 AM
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Attack of the Tacks!
The Central Indiana Bicycle Association (CIBA) reports that they and other volunteers spent the weekend sweeping a segment of our local (and extremely popular) MUP with magnetic parking lot sweepers, in the wake of literally hundreds of flat tires last week. It seems some bright soul thought it would be entertaining to sprinkle part of the trail with carpet tacks.
06-18-12 | 11:35 AM
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I guess that just goes to show you that some folks are truly anything but as sharp as a tack. What a foolish thing to do. But as Ben Franklin said: "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
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06-18-12 | 12:01 PM
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Wow, that's just dumb.
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06-18-12 | 12:30 PM
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It's a pretty adolescent trick. Someone did the same thing on RAGBRAI in 2008. There were hundreds of flats that day, including me. I had not one but two holes in my tube. Someone did it two years in a row on DALMAC, in the same location/ The second year, someone spotted him doing it got his license number, and turned it over to the local police. no problems since then.
06-18-12 | 03:05 PM
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It's a big problem when someone does this out on the MTB trails, because they just about have to clean it up by hand. It's happened here a couple of times in the past ten years.
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06-18-12 | 05:40 PM
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What a bunch, or a single, ass.
Makes you want to find them and put some Atomic Balm in their jock.
We had fits in NW Florida after the hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 with roofing tacks. They were everywhere. Our company's trucks had an average of 2 flats per week during this period. Urrrggghhh.
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Makes you want to find them and put some Atomic Balm in their jock. We had fits in NW Florida after the hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 with roofing tacks. They were everywhere. Our company's trucks had an average of 2 flats per week during this period. Urrrggghhh.Bill
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06-19-12 | 06:42 AM
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The Central Indiana Bicycle Association (CIBA) reports that they and other volunteers spent the weekend sweeping a segment of our local (and extremely popular) MUP with magnetic parking lot sweepers, in the wake of literally hundreds of flat tires last week. It seems some bright soul thought it would be entertaining to sprinkle part of the trail with carpet tacks.
06-19-12 | 08:20 AM
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06-19-12 | 09:10 AM
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Bikes: Catrike 559 I own some others but they don't get ridden very much.
Suddenly it makes sense to me. Some misguided jerks somehow found a supply of carpet tacks and couldn't think of anything else to do with them.
