Good advice, but doubling the time may be rather liberal. In all my years of commuting, I've rarely had to stop, but even two flats slowly changed add half an hour, and IME more than 1 per ride is very rare even here in goathead country.
If you set up your bike to be pretty much fool proof (and I don't mean, necessarily, fixed) you should rarely have a breakdown even commuting quite a bit further than 10 miles one way. I can remember two occasions over 10+ years where I had a mechanical beside flats, and both were due to bad prep: one, frayed rear shifter cable (I didn't have to stop); and using a cheap stamped fixed cog that ground off the cheap threads on my Normandy hub. On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Jimmy Hutch <ji...@jimmyhutchinson.com>wrote: > > Time in the saddle matters a lot and be prepared to be exposed for twice > the amount of your average ride time to account for flats, mechanical > failures, etc. > -- *RESUMES THAT GET YOU NOTICED!* Certified Resume Writer http://resumespecialties.com/index.html patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Albuquerque, NM -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
