Bloody Bike woes again
Jun. 17th, 2003 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperYes, rant on the bike again. But not on the helmet this time. Took time out from data entry to take some comics down to the post office and put my cheque into the bank at Pangbourne. Back tyre seemed exceedingly flat for just one night in the garage, but since it normally needs pumping up each time I take it out, didn't think anything of it and pumped it up from completely flat to bouncy again. Checked on the front tyre, pumped it up for good measure, then checked again on the back tyre, which seemed a little soft. Thought maybe I hadn't pumped it enough, so pumped it up again for good luck.
Went about 150 yards and the tyre'd gone down completely (as in you could feel the steel rims bumping along the ground). Bugger, bugger, bugger. Appears have a puncture, and I'd gone too far (and over too many crossings) to take it back, so wheeled it to post office in Purley, posted comics and wheeled it back. A trip that should've taken a total of seven minutes each way with ten minutes in Pangbourne took 45 to go less than a third of the way, because you go even slower if you're pushing a bike along a very bumpy pavement.
Am now completely fecking bikeless, and will have to figure out a way to get bike either into town or into Pangbourne to get a new inner tube, as I have no means whatsoever to dismantle bike and get tyre off. Of course, the fact that I'm completely cack-handed when it comes to bike repairs or anything more complex than screwing a bike pump/basket on/oiling the bike or putting the gear chain back on (something I've gotten used to over the years - at one point it was happening so often I had a rag tied onto the bike) doesn't help either....
Went about 150 yards and the tyre'd gone down completely (as in you could feel the steel rims bumping along the ground). Bugger, bugger, bugger. Appears have a puncture, and I'd gone too far (and over too many crossings) to take it back, so wheeled it to post office in Purley, posted comics and wheeled it back. A trip that should've taken a total of seven minutes each way with ten minutes in Pangbourne took 45 to go less than a third of the way, because you go even slower if you're pushing a bike along a very bumpy pavement.
Am now completely fecking bikeless, and will have to figure out a way to get bike either into town or into Pangbourne to get a new inner tube, as I have no means whatsoever to dismantle bike and get tyre off. Of course, the fact that I'm completely cack-handed when it comes to bike repairs or anything more complex than screwing a bike pump/basket on/oiling the bike or putting the gear chain back on (something I've gotten used to over the years - at one point it was happening so often I had a rag tied onto the bike) doesn't help either....
