{"id":5712,"date":"2010-08-30T03:11:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T08:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2010-08-30T00:16:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T05:16:38","slug":"august-28th-and-29th-bike-rides-goat-head-thorn-souvenir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/august-28th-and-29th-bike-rides-goat-head-thorn-souvenir\/","title":{"rendered":"August 28th and 29th Bike Rides &#8211; Goat Head Thorn Souvenir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a lot of riding these two days in Wichita Falls. When I got home and was taking my front tire out of the Jeep I noticed it was soft from losing air. Partially relieved and also perturbed I set it aside to look at later after we unpacked and got things in order. When I inspected the tire I found one goat head thorn sticking out of the sidewall not far from the valve stem. I am not sure when I got this but maybe it was during this morning&#8217;s ride. I do not remember getting into the grass but maybe it was in the road. Back before my first Hotter&#8217;n Hell 100 I read about how these thorns could wreak havoc on riders and over the years I have managed to avoid them most of the time. I have seen people walking their bike with several clinging to their tires.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the charts and maps for these two days. (Click on any picture to enlarge it.)<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=104]<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=105]<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s ride was a short one to keep my legs moving and to get the miles for the week up to 158.28.<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/46789445 465 548]<\/p>\n<p>Rather than recap all of the statistics the important ones are August miles 569.32 and the YTD miles 3677.79.<\/p>\n<p>The video is a recap of the ride. I need to apologize for the poor camera work when I was riding through Sheppard Air Force Base and the airmen were cheering. I was waving the camera in response to their cheering.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"play\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"loop\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VTL2NeJMhxo\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a lot of riding these two days in Wichita Falls. When I got home and was taking my front tire out of the Jeep I noticed it was soft from losing air. Partially relieved and also perturbed I <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/august-28th-and-29th-bike-rides-goat-head-thorn-souvenir\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[14],"tags":[135,1714,71],"class_list":["post-5712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-ride","tag-hottern-hell-100","tag-wichita-falls-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1u8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712","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=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}