TAN #66: Get your kicks on TAN-66 (Page 63)

Interesting.  Not untrue, I guess.  It IS the best it could be....  It just so happens, that totally sh!tty is the best it's going to get.  I could have settled pizz-poor or crappy, but it was down right sh!tty...

But my green tea is warm and tasty.  Plus I have an appology from the wife and started looking for replacement rings.  I found some cool ones for less than 80 bucks to replace the carbide knock-around one I had.

I rode my bike.  Then again, I haven't been around much today. 

good morning kiddos!  busy long day ahead of me.  eh.

i removed and replaced my rear tire for the first time ever last night!  i'm so proud of myself!

There you go.  Saw the pictures.  Looked like you had fun.

I did.  There was absolutely nothing wrong with tube, tire, rim, nothing.  I put it all back together and had full pressure in the tire in no time.  Weird.  I went out to watch the Pitt game last night with grease all over my sleeves and crusted in my fingernails.  I felt like a real cyclist.

Not bad at all.  But how did you get grease on your sleeves?  I understand hands and fingernails, but sleeves?

I am in a chronic flat situation... I have patched and patched and patched... I keep finding the cause, but the tire keeps flatting... and I'm on the trainer... grrr....

oh... morning all...

Morning Artemis + Akustix.

Preach, why does your tire flat so often?

from wrestling the chain back into place.  and probably didn't help that i decided to take my messy hands and push up my sleeves halfway through the task.

Fair enough.  Did you have your chain moved down into the smallest gear in the back before you went to remove the wheel?  That makes it a lot easier to get back on.

yup.  my mom got me a book on bike maintenance for my bday last year and i had that out following step by step.  real cyclist, ha.

well my usual answer... my fat @$$. 

I found a tiny shard of rock in a cut on my tire.  now that this tire has been used on my trainer, that crevice got more noticeable, and the shard was more visible for me to remove.

I also think though that the tube itself is squeezing through the crack and getting pinched or something... I dunno.  It's driving me crazy.  I bought a new puncture resistant tire for the road.  I thought that using the old one on the trainer would get me free of this problem.  no go... 

Hopefully if you have the rock out and a new tube it will cease to be an issue.