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I'm using the spare room in the condo for both the large clothes drying rack I snagged from the garbage (because why pay for clothes drying, put additional wear on clothing, and use unnecessary energy when I don't have to?) and now for bike work. My work stand folks up nicely and goes in the closet when I don't need it.
I found the nasty little piece of glass that had worked through the tire and got it out. It was mostly embedded in the tire so I had to work at it with pliers from both the inside and outside. I tried to patch the inner tube too, but I had apparently forgotten how to it correctly and failed. I put my spare in instead and will need to buy a new spare. (I read some tutorials about it later and realized what I was doing wrong for next time.) I put the new grips on the handlebars too. Wrestling the old ones off was so difficult that I ended up using a utility knife to just cut the second one into pieces. The new ones went on a little more easily, though still with great effort. I had to cut them shorter to make them fit in blatant disregard of the safety warnings to only allow competent mechanics to install them and to never modify bicycle components. If you never hear from me again because I was killed by improperly mounted and modified bicycle hand grips, my love goes to you all.
I had a nice ride to work today with a tailwind, that near-mythical creature, with me almost the whole way. I also tried a minor diversion near the end to avoid a bridge with heavy traffic and uneven road where it's joined with the roadway and will be going that way in the future.
I found the nasty little piece of glass that had worked through the tire and got it out. It was mostly embedded in the tire so I had to work at it with pliers from both the inside and outside. I tried to patch the inner tube too, but I had apparently forgotten how to it correctly and failed. I put my spare in instead and will need to buy a new spare. (I read some tutorials about it later and realized what I was doing wrong for next time.) I put the new grips on the handlebars too. Wrestling the old ones off was so difficult that I ended up using a utility knife to just cut the second one into pieces. The new ones went on a little more easily, though still with great effort. I had to cut them shorter to make them fit in blatant disregard of the safety warnings to only allow competent mechanics to install them and to never modify bicycle components. If you never hear from me again because I was killed by improperly mounted and modified bicycle hand grips, my love goes to you all.
I had a nice ride to work today with a tailwind, that near-mythical creature, with me almost the whole way. I also tried a minor diversion near the end to avoid a bridge with heavy traffic and uneven road where it's joined with the roadway and will be going that way in the future.
