Speaking of cold and flats: I was riding the All-Rounder to work earlier this year, temperature in the mid-20s (cold for Texas), dark. I have not yet discovered the Rivendell wind proof gloves and my fingers had gone completely numb...then I noticed the rear end of the bike felt a bit "loose and squirmy"...DOH! I have about 1 mile to go on an 8 mile commute; I leaned the bike against a chain-link fence and concluded that this was a slow leak...time to do a "pump and pedal!" I took off my gloves, found the mini-pump (I don't use these anymore) and started pumping like a mad man...the tire inflated at about the same rate as my hands warmed up :-). Turns out the tire would deflate at about the same rate than my fingers would loose feeling...one more pump up session and I was at work.
Worked out just fine in the end. Angus On Dec 12, 4:14 pm, "David T." <davidtren...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > Hey Joel, the winters are pretty mild where I live in Southwestern > Ontario. But we had a blizzard earlier this week, everything shut > down, the schools were closed for three days. I did not ride my bike > during that time. > > There are a lot of places in the States that have more severe winters > than where I am. A lot of times during the winter here, the roads are > fairly clear. Other times there is snow on them. I have a couple of > short sections on my commute where I need to ride on trails, those are > the tough places. One good thing about riding on snow is that it > really builds up your leg strength. > > On the subject of flats: I never get them. In fact I am not sure if I > have ever had a flat. I remember repairing a tube once when I was a > lot younger, but I don’t think it went flat while I was riding. Now I > use really good tires, but even when I didn’t, I never had a problem. > I even toured on my bicycle at one time, using only the cheapest tires > available, and had no flats. At the time I didn’t know that tires were > supposed to go flat. > > Although I did have a number of flat tires on a Lada in Jamaica once. > That was inconvenient. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
