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From: pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: First flat in a looooong time
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:54:02 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-27, Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>
> Tuesday, 25 March 2025
>
> On Saturday, I came out of Aldi to find my front tire flat.
>
> On Monday, I walked to the Trailhouse and handed the wheel
> to the mechanic with instructions to put in a new tube and
> find out what had happened to the old one.
>
> He showed me a crack at the base of the valve stem.   The
> tube had died of old age!

It's kind of nice to know it was not a nail, I guess.

I think my last flat was a base of valve failure, too.

Pureheart in Aptos



>
> --------------------
>
> Still haven't put the wheel back on, and I want to ride to
> Mary Anne's Place tomorrow.
>
>
>
> Wednesday, 26 March 2025
>
> What was predicted to be a good day for riding turned out to
> be a good day for hanging out laundry.  I'd hoped to dash to
> Kroger for potatoes, but after hanging sheets in a cold
> wind, spending half an hour dressing for a fifteen-minute
> ride didn't sound like much fun.
>