As I walked into the garage to start the ride I went through my ritual of squeezing each tire. The rear tire came back firm but the front one went soft between my fingers. After the July 12th ride problems I did not expect another flat quite so soon. Removing the wheel I spun it around to check for the problem. I could see anything from the outside so I gathered my tire tools, patch kit and floor pump and went inside to find the culprit. Pulling the tube out and pumping it up it took a couple of minutes to locate the tiny hole. Once I found the hole I started checking the inside of the tire and found a tiny piece of wire just barely sticking into the tire. I could not get a grip on it so I used a push pin to work it out and it popped into the sink. Now I patched the tube but three of the patches I attempted to use were no good because the foil backing had rubbed the adhesive off. I never had that problem so again I was glad this was a repair at home. Working inside was nice too.<\/p>\n
The ride started about 20 minutes later\u00c2\u00a0 and I left at 1:53. Riding out of the driveway I liked getting a solid thump as the tires went over the bump and onto the street. Rain clouds roamed around the area today and I headed to the south to Atascocita, Walden and Huffman. I added a couple of extra streets to increase the mileage and came in at 33.27 miles<\/strong> and average speed held at 15.4 mph. The temperature moderated today at 87 to 88 while I biked. The rain stayed away but when I rode west over Lake Houston on FM1960 I saw a lightning bolt in the far distance but nothing came of it all the way home. There is a 60% chance of rain tomorrow so biking could be interrupted. July miles moved up to 427.79<\/strong> and year to date now is 3753<\/strong>. Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a> maps and metrics.<\/p>\n Nothing unusual on the ride today and both tires were still firm when I rolled into the garage. No other bicyclists appeared.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slide” album=”193″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I walked into the garage to start the ride I went through my ritual of squeezing each tire. The rear tire came back firm but the front one went soft between my fingers. After the July 12th ride problems …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[3932,4361,1350,1424],"class_list":["post-21911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-walden-huffman","tag-motobecane-le-champion-cf","tag-ride-report","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-5Hp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}