Pech
The day before yesterday my bike's back wheel made a loud noise, emptying the back tube in less than a second. Interesting. i then walked my bike the last few hundred meters to the tea house.
I didn't have a tube repairing kit around, so I left the thing for the next day and went home by bus.
Yesterday I then tried fixing the tube. Luckily it still counted more as a puncture than a rupture and the hole should be fixable. However, the outer tyre is worn out. The tube's broken because there was a direct way for a stone to sneak inside for its cruel terrorist attack. No reparation procedures shall be committed before the tightened security regulations have been met. In other words, I'm gonna have to buy a new outer tyre for my back wheel, as it will otherwise go kaboom again.
It's interesting how crap my dear bike now is.
I have ridden it about 150...200 km per week since April, so that's something like 2000 km. The back lamp has seized to function because of some electrical problem. The back wheel mysteriously detaches every now and then while accelerating. Sometimes it happens five times a day, sometimes once per five days. Go figure. Luckily the only thing that results from such detaching is an automatic full breaking. Just like some train or so :))
The saddle's not keeping straight anymore, the front light broke when I had too much stuff in my big backpack and the breaks couldn't bear the weight on the bike in a bike road intersection.
But the most interesting thing is that the back tyre has indeed worn out in 2000km. Shouldn't really be possible. Of course I have never before tried riding 1000km in +30°C..
Ah well. Anyway, since I couldn't fix my bike - or it would anyway have made no sinn fixing it - I've had to use the public transportation instead. That means waking up 30 minutes earlier, because the bus leaves at 08:10 while with bike 08:40 is enough. It also means me going to sleep later, because getting back home in the evening takes a long time. Last night sure was the record about that. I had to help a friend of mine to close a window, so I missed the last U-Bahn by a few tens of seconds. Since I had to transport my bike home, I couldn't use the night bus and had to take the tram instead. Of course the tram was 50 seconds faster than I was and I didn't make it. I walked with bike the 800m to the stop where I was supposed to change trams. Of course both of the possible trams left in front of my eyes.
I had to wait about half an hour for the next tram. Of course that tram had to then make a detour around my stop, forcing me to walk about one kilometer extra. Altogether the trip took me almost 2 hours to complete. And I've been complaining of the way home usually taking 40 minutes...
Ah well, this morning wasn't really any better. I wanted to try if I could reach a possible earlier tram so that I would be a while earlier at workplace. From the timetables it was clear that there wouldn't be any risks in it. The change from U-Bahn to tram would be long enough that it could in no way fail. And in a way it also didn't fail. Since the tram tracks were being rebuilt, there was a bus replacing the trams until a certain stop, where passengers then had to exchange to the tram waiting there. So, basically if you make it to the bus, you are already in the tram. I almost missed the bus, though, because it's destination schild said "route ends here" meaning that the bus won't take any new passengers. Luckily I noticed there were still people inside and got the bus to stop again. But being in the bus meaning practically being in the tram is quite theoretical. It did indeed work so that when the bus arrived, the tram left. It would, however, have been very nice if the tram had waited the 40 seconds for the passengers and not left at the same moment the bus opened its doors.
So, stranded there, I took another tram on the same road to go to some stop with those timetable screens. Logically the stop with an exchange from S-Bahn doesn't have those screens, but luckily a smaller stop did have them. There it got clear to me that the tram that I had missed because of the interesting replacement traffic has drives once every 20 minutes. I wasn't too keen to waiting that long, so I jumped out of the tram where I was in order to take another route, going first by one tram for five stops and then changing again. Of course I first had to wait a while for the tram to arrive and then the exchange failed, forcing me to wait the maximum time again.
I ended up coming precisely 20 minutes late to my workplace, so the result was the same as if I had waited for the next tram on my usual route.
I could have been clever and changed a few stops later, which would probably have saved me almost 10 minutes. But, it's a bit late thinking about that now. I still don't remember the whole Berlin tram map, but these kinds of things are perfect for learning it.
The positive things yesterday? I got people to play mölkky, which is a great outdoors game. And I even won once. I also got back the Lithuanian study book that I had forgotten in a bar. A friend of mine had noticed it and taken it with him.
That means I can keep studying that stuff without having to pay another 30€. If I wasn't so very tired, this day would be very okay. But, having slept only about five hours, I am right now just very stressed. In the morning I was so stressed that I was sweating all the time even if I wasn't doing anything at all.
I didn't have a tube repairing kit around, so I left the thing for the next day and went home by bus.
Yesterday I then tried fixing the tube. Luckily it still counted more as a puncture than a rupture and the hole should be fixable. However, the outer tyre is worn out. The tube's broken because there was a direct way for a stone to sneak inside for its cruel terrorist attack. No reparation procedures shall be committed before the tightened security regulations have been met. In other words, I'm gonna have to buy a new outer tyre for my back wheel, as it will otherwise go kaboom again.
It's interesting how crap my dear bike now is.
I have ridden it about 150...200 km per week since April, so that's something like 2000 km. The back lamp has seized to function because of some electrical problem. The back wheel mysteriously detaches every now and then while accelerating. Sometimes it happens five times a day, sometimes once per five days. Go figure. Luckily the only thing that results from such detaching is an automatic full breaking. Just like some train or so :))
The saddle's not keeping straight anymore, the front light broke when I had too much stuff in my big backpack and the breaks couldn't bear the weight on the bike in a bike road intersection.
But the most interesting thing is that the back tyre has indeed worn out in 2000km. Shouldn't really be possible. Of course I have never before tried riding 1000km in +30°C..
Ah well. Anyway, since I couldn't fix my bike - or it would anyway have made no sinn fixing it - I've had to use the public transportation instead. That means waking up 30 minutes earlier, because the bus leaves at 08:10 while with bike 08:40 is enough. It also means me going to sleep later, because getting back home in the evening takes a long time. Last night sure was the record about that. I had to help a friend of mine to close a window, so I missed the last U-Bahn by a few tens of seconds. Since I had to transport my bike home, I couldn't use the night bus and had to take the tram instead. Of course the tram was 50 seconds faster than I was and I didn't make it. I walked with bike the 800m to the stop where I was supposed to change trams. Of course both of the possible trams left in front of my eyes.
I had to wait about half an hour for the next tram. Of course that tram had to then make a detour around my stop, forcing me to walk about one kilometer extra. Altogether the trip took me almost 2 hours to complete. And I've been complaining of the way home usually taking 40 minutes...
Ah well, this morning wasn't really any better. I wanted to try if I could reach a possible earlier tram so that I would be a while earlier at workplace. From the timetables it was clear that there wouldn't be any risks in it. The change from U-Bahn to tram would be long enough that it could in no way fail. And in a way it also didn't fail. Since the tram tracks were being rebuilt, there was a bus replacing the trams until a certain stop, where passengers then had to exchange to the tram waiting there. So, basically if you make it to the bus, you are already in the tram. I almost missed the bus, though, because it's destination schild said "route ends here" meaning that the bus won't take any new passengers. Luckily I noticed there were still people inside and got the bus to stop again. But being in the bus meaning practically being in the tram is quite theoretical. It did indeed work so that when the bus arrived, the tram left. It would, however, have been very nice if the tram had waited the 40 seconds for the passengers and not left at the same moment the bus opened its doors.
So, stranded there, I took another tram on the same road to go to some stop with those timetable screens. Logically the stop with an exchange from S-Bahn doesn't have those screens, but luckily a smaller stop did have them. There it got clear to me that the tram that I had missed because of the interesting replacement traffic has drives once every 20 minutes. I wasn't too keen to waiting that long, so I jumped out of the tram where I was in order to take another route, going first by one tram for five stops and then changing again. Of course I first had to wait a while for the tram to arrive and then the exchange failed, forcing me to wait the maximum time again.
I ended up coming precisely 20 minutes late to my workplace, so the result was the same as if I had waited for the next tram on my usual route.
I could have been clever and changed a few stops later, which would probably have saved me almost 10 minutes. But, it's a bit late thinking about that now. I still don't remember the whole Berlin tram map, but these kinds of things are perfect for learning it.
The positive things yesterday? I got people to play mölkky, which is a great outdoors game. And I even won once. I also got back the Lithuanian study book that I had forgotten in a bar. A friend of mine had noticed it and taken it with him.
That means I can keep studying that stuff without having to pay another 30€. If I wasn't so very tired, this day would be very okay. But, having slept only about five hours, I am right now just very stressed. In the morning I was so stressed that I was sweating all the time even if I wasn't doing anything at all.