10 flats in 20 miles, this pre-sealant, and very unusual even for goatheadhell ABQ, NM. Used up both spare tubes; used up my stash of patches; hitched a ride with a nice man to Stevie's Happy Bikes to buy new patch kit; used up most of those patches but got home on the last but 1 or 2 or 3. I got as much of an arm workout as a leg workout. I have to say that even pre sealant, this was very unusual; usual was (averaging all rides all year) say, the nominally arithmetical average of 1/2 flat per ride. With sealant, those days are, Deo gratias, gone.
Or, leaving work late, at dusk, on the gofast, having forgotten a light. Hit a handicap-access curb to the bike trail a wee bit too hard; bent fork -- frame and, very oddly, rim, tire, and tube, fine. Rode the remaining 10 miles home with noticeably more trail (and mostly on car-free bike trails) in the dark but got home safely. Riv gave me a friendly discount on a replacement fork. Biggest: riding to school circa 1971-2 through what was back then square miles of coffee plantations -- otherwise normal Brit expat semi-rural neighborhood -- and having a large, white antelope of some sort, with big, curving horns leap out of the coffee on one side and dash off into the other, about 10 feet in front of me; odd even for period Nairobi. (But I had a friend who kept a cheetah for a pet, which was actually not that uncommon.) On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 12:33 PM 'Deacon Patrick' via RBW Owners Bunch < [email protected]> wrote: > ... What oddities have made your return ride home extra-adventurous? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
