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I love my bike, I really do. It gets me pretty much everywhere I need to go, and can bypass most of the Bristol city centre traffic. It lets me manage crazy scheduling like work until 5.30pm, had to uni for evening class at 6.30pm - 8pm, cycle to karate for training at 9 - 10:45, cycle home and be through the door around 11.30.
The past two months however I seem to have hit a spate of bad luck with it.
First the back tyre got a puncture. Not so bad, I brought an inner tube and decided to tackle changing it myself. I got distracted along the way and ended up cleaning the entire bike. While in my pyjamas (my bike was rather dirty, I didn't want to get my clothes dirty, it was logical I swear). Eventually that was done and it was time to put the inner tube in. I'd never done this before, but it seemed fairly straight forward. I managed to wrestle it in an pumped it up.
Pshhhhht.
The new tube immediately goes flat. Careful inspection of the type doesn't reveal anything sharp so I suspect I got it caught between the rim and the tyre somehow.
So I buy another one and put that in. All is fine for about a week.
Until the taxi driver opened the door into me while I was going at quiet a pace downhill and sent me flying. Fortunately there wasn't any cars behind me and I landed fairly well. I walked away from that one with only bruises.
The bike didn't. The bike had a bit of the chain mechanism twisted in such a way that it dug into the tyre so that the tyre couldn't even spin. I was rather glad then that it's made of aluminium and is fairly light, because I had to carry it nearly 3 miles home. That took a trip to the bike shop to fix.
Still, it was back and working, until I got out of my Japanese class today, got on it to cycle to karate...
And found the tyre was flat. Same one.
Bugger.
At least I could wheel it this time.
The past two months however I seem to have hit a spate of bad luck with it.
First the back tyre got a puncture. Not so bad, I brought an inner tube and decided to tackle changing it myself. I got distracted along the way and ended up cleaning the entire bike. While in my pyjamas (my bike was rather dirty, I didn't want to get my clothes dirty, it was logical I swear). Eventually that was done and it was time to put the inner tube in. I'd never done this before, but it seemed fairly straight forward. I managed to wrestle it in an pumped it up.
Pshhhhht.
The new tube immediately goes flat. Careful inspection of the type doesn't reveal anything sharp so I suspect I got it caught between the rim and the tyre somehow.
So I buy another one and put that in. All is fine for about a week.
Until the taxi driver opened the door into me while I was going at quiet a pace downhill and sent me flying. Fortunately there wasn't any cars behind me and I landed fairly well. I walked away from that one with only bruises.
The bike didn't. The bike had a bit of the chain mechanism twisted in such a way that it dug into the tyre so that the tyre couldn't even spin. I was rather glad then that it's made of aluminium and is fairly light, because I had to carry it nearly 3 miles home. That took a trip to the bike shop to fix.
Still, it was back and working, until I got out of my Japanese class today, got on it to cycle to karate...
And found the tyre was flat. Same one.
Bugger.
At least I could wheel it this time.