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<\/a>Rear tire invader<\/p><\/div>\n
As I loosened the tire from the rim and pulled the tube out the metal stayed in the tire casing. I had to use a plastic tire tool to push it through far enough for me to pull it out the rest of the way. Several days ago I had a thought that I should check the glue in the patch kit in my seat bag but I forgot to do that. Needless to say the tube was dried out and no glue came out. So I moved to plan B; replace the tube with the spare in the seat bag. So I put the tube in the tire and mounted it back on the rim. Starting to pump it didn’t take too long to see that the tube was not holding air. At first I though the pump was not working but it was okay. I now realized the spare tube also had some kind of a hole so I am back to not being able to patch the spare tube either.<\/p>\n
Plan C is next except I saw an email on my phone that said AT&T was having problems with their wireless network in the Houston area. Plan C is to call my wife and ask her to bring a floor pump, bike toolbox and a spare tube. Thankfully I was able to call her and about 25 minutes later she arrived. To be safe I asked her to stay until I got the tire fixed. That was a good idea as the first new patch kit I opened had a problem; the glue was dried up in it too. Finding another new patch kit (glad I bought several of them) and the glue was still good. So I started to patch the original flat tube but as I turned the tube around I saw the medal piece had went through both sides of the tube. In the past I have not had success patching a tube like this. So I threw that tube away (it had several patches already) and grabbed the new tube my wife brought. Finally I got the tire back on the rim, aired it up and was ready to bike back home. I told my wife everything was fixed and she could leave. If you look at the interval times below, interval 5 lasted 2 hours, well over the others. That is why I call this two rides in one.<\/p>\n
Back riding now I could tell the temperature increase from earlier and when I got home the weather station showed 99 degrees with 36% humidity. This accounts for the lack of sweat on the second ride. Prior to the tire fiasco I was pretty sweaty but the 11+ miles from Huffman to home was a lot drier. The full route was 35.19 miles<\/strong> at a 16.1 mph average speed. When I checked at 30 miles I averaged 16.2 mph so I only lost .1 mph on the side streets in Kingwood. I almost beat my wife home because she stopped at Burger King for lunch.<\/p>\n The moral of this story: check your patch kit for dried up glue often, especially in the summer heat.<\/p>\n Now that I am home I will see if I can fix the spare tube that would not hold air in Huffman.<\/p>\n Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a> maps and metrics.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slide” album=”191″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"