Clinton, Neil, Hayden and I rode the Heatonville Big 5 ride on Sunday – tough course but beautiful. It had everything from hills (that’s why they call it mountain biking, I suppose), gravel road, jeep tracks, km’s of single tracks (excellent), a river crossing (see the photo’s in the attached letter) and lots of thorns. I suffered a rear wheel puncture with 3km’s to go so battled with pumping it up all the time as I did not want to change the tube with such a short distance left.
I stripped the tyre last night and found a few thorns which created the problem. On a whim, and because I’m getting quite good at this now, I decided to strip the front wheel.
I found another 3 thorns which had punctured my slime tube. The slime worked on the day as my tyre was still hard but it would most probably have deflated on the next ride.
So, after a ride, check those tubes.
Craig U
Monday, June 28, 2010
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