I like the retro drop handlebars on that red Public bike
It takes a lot longer, but the barn swallows will come back around here during the spring when the bugs return, My Brother has a little 6# black barn cat that could catch the barn swallows when they swooped( either Barn Swallows or Cliff Swallows can't remember the distinction) most of the Summer the Swallows are catching the Heck out of the Bugs and crapping on everything then toward the Fall they suddenly disappear, another crazy thing to watch is the "Killdees-(plovers) put the eggs right on the ground in the open, we would always sit something up near the eggs so we wouldn't run over them, finally, they would hatch and be gone in a day or two. One other thing they finally got the stinkin" Canadian Geese to hang around all the time and the Ducks do not seem as numerous, things changed some landowners found a way to get the Geese to leave again.
Schwalbe, what the "Luftwaffe" called the ME262.
Wow was that screw sticking straight up in a board when you're ran over it? It's hard to see how that could penetrate the tire if it was layed flat on the ground. I must be lucky but I never see those on the road or paved trails. Were you going to do a construction zone?
You run over it with your front tire. The sticky-ish rubber of that tire picks up the nail and now its a little airborne and bouncing around some. So before it settles down it hits your oncoming rear tire and thats the end of that. This is why so many flats are on the rear tire vs. the front.
Used to get flats all the time here in Phoenix especially off-roading because of all the cactus needles (some call them goatheads), I think my record was like 5 rides in a row with a flat, Tannus inserts have done the trick, slime helped but didn’t eliminate them, also started buying the thicker tubes before the inserts, realized here I just need to spend a little more on better tires and inserts since there are cactus needles everywhere, plan to get the schwalbe tires once I run these tires down
yeah we have goatheads out the wazoo here. My first ride on my Cyclone'd Stumpjumper, I decided to rip around thru a construction site that used to be a field. When I saw about a billion goatheads on the front/back tire I put that motor to good use hauling ass back home before I had to start walking. I actually had no flats thanks to green slime inside of thornproof tubes, but I wasn't about to take any chances.
I didnt see it either. I was going about 40 kmh alongside the barnet highway. Today I saw the street sweeper truck cleaning along the area where it happened. I gave him the thumbs up but he probably thought I was giving him the finger. (-:
Wow, kinda freak thing to have that size screw go from laying flat to all the way in that tough Marathon+. Hope my Big Ben+ see's none.
A few times I had the pleasure( not) of walking on the shoulder of Rt.29 in Charlottesville,VA, it was amazing the amount of screws and other sharp junk laying on the Tarmac, after investing a few tosses of Junk into the storm sewer, I went on my way- wondering why all the so called"Public Servants"( ticket writers) couldn't have an electromagnet or something to gather up small magnetic junk on the highways, certainly, it wouldn't hurt the "taxpayer' fueled machine.
This is kind of funny human psychology. It is called the Psychology of Sunk Costs. And is worth looking up. She, the roadie, has always done it this way. It is part of her ingrained identity. There is also the martyrdom and pride in suffering and the skill it takes to quickly change a flat on the side of the highway. Besides, if someone sold her $2100 carbon wheels based on their weight then she has greater psychological investment in that, that is the superior approach to justify the expenditure. This is why political causes like to ask if they can get a $1 contribution and put a five inch yard sign in your lawn. Once you do that you then have buy in, perhaps for life. Next year you may put up a five-foot banner. Yes, it is not logical.
