How fast can you change a road tire on the road?
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grilled cheesus
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is Psimet riding with me? if so, then pretty fast. he gots skillz. later.
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5 min.: Stop, yell at your buds "Flat!", stand there looking at it, having your buds come over and ask "Is it flat?", moving it off the road, moving your buds off the road, finding a place to take it apart, spinning wheel to get small/small ring/cog, pulling out ziplocs with tire stuff and tube, taking off tire, inspecting tire, taking off tube, pumping up tube to see where leak is, handing tube to one of your buds so he can hear it go "pffft" too so they can confirm that it's flat, pump up new tube a little and install, get tube seated, get tire all the way on rim, pump up tube a little more and check that it's not getting pinched, borrow someone's road morph or have someone who's pissed that it's taking so long give you their CO2 pump. Find out that their CO2 pump has never been used, they don't know how to use it, and go ahead and pump it up with the road morph like you should have done in the first instance. Yep. About 5 min.
A) What's the point of shifting to the small chainring?
B) Hint: Pull the wheel off first, then shift to the small cog. (Or what would be the small cog if your wheel were still mounted.) There, I just saved you nine seconds of pointless wheel spinning. You're down to 4'51" now.





