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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail 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) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: <vs2ek9$35of4$1@dont-email.me> References: <9jb9ujhl5v9o2aph80i4muia5r2o6qqhf4@4ax.com> Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 03:54:03 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bdc414c977b86b604409653bb3c4a9ba"; logging-data="3334628"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18mJdyqOU/ytimHybU2i7mKvgAuN7agg94=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rnq7zOTOCXrD9Anmxgi8FALjgVE= 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. >