[bonesindustries]

We have a highlight of the ride, after my attempted ride last night i figured this one make a good thread lol.
Yesterday my friend and I head to the Legacy trail here in beautiful Lexington, KY. I'm feeling great had just got a new jersey and shorts. Bike was tunned up a couple weeks ago- so we head out about 2-3 miles into the ride we come head on towards a group of 10-15 who in their minds owned the entire trail. practicaly getting run off the trail at 15-18mph i hit a rock or ditch or something with my rear wheel. Gave me one hell of a jolt!! well another half mile and i find out it knocked the air outa my tire as well. so break it down patch the hole which was next to the seem, and go on.. another 3-4 miles. it flat again. so repeat. repair procedure. another half mile flat again and out of c02. lol so i walk 3 miles pushing the bike to the end of the trail and my buddy rides back to the other end to get the truck.. So today i will be buying 3 tubes. alot more c02. lol and getting my rear wheel true'd again!

[wild]

Let me sugest a pump, thay are as good as your arm is

[John_V]

I wish this thread was up yesterday when I had to change tubes because the presta valve stem on my front tube broke off when I pulled the pump head off the valve. It certainly was not a highlight of my ride.

[ksr5]

Originally Posted by John_V

I wish this thread was up yesterday when I had to change tubes because the presta valve stem on my front tube broke off when I pulled the pump head off the valve. It certainly was not a highlight of my ride.

I did the exact same thing yesterday pumped the valve stem off.

[John_V]

Originally Posted by ksr5

I did the exact same thing yesterday pumped the valve stem off.

I don't know about you, but I can't stand these presta valves. Leave it to the French to make something that should be simple into a cluster ####. This has never happened with a Shrader valve.

[bonesindustries]

Originally Posted by wild

Let me sugest a pump, thay are as good as your arm is

true.. but in all honesty with the patches not holding i would have spent more time stopping every half mile to pump it back up then it took me to walk the last few miles lol

[wild]

Yes the trusty old presta valve. I had baught 6 tubes and every one was bad, when you had a flat you could not get all the air out and that made it verry hard to change the tube and fix the flat.

[Dos_Ruedas]

Originally Posted by bonesindustries

true.. but in all honesty with the patches not holding i would have spent more time stopping every half mile to pump it back up then it took me to walk the last few miles lol

I carry a patch kit & an extra tube on every ride.... after I had a similar problem several years ago.
Just food for thought.

[John_V]

I had a shocking downfall on today's ride. There's this husband and wife that goes to the same MUP that I go to that I've ridden with a few times. She was a champion speed skater and a very avid cyclist, as is the husband. The last few times I have seen the husband at the MUP, he was by himself. She is from Columbia and I figured she went home for a month or so, to visit family. I asked the husband how his wife was doing and found out she passed away, in May, from brain cancer. You would have never known that she was ill by watching her. This was a woman that speed skated 22 miles a day and cycled 35-45 miles/day on weekends. Other than from the MUP, I didn't know Claudia that well, but it was still a bummer that didn't exactly make my morning.

[qmsdc15]

That's very sad, the picture of the widower riding alone. I shed a tear. But that is life and I assume they were happy together until death did they part and that is life at it's best and it's beautiful and it's all good. Rest in peace Claudia and my condolences to the survivors.