Last Saturday we rode our bikes to eat breakfast, and when we left the cafe we'd only gone a couple of blocks when I felt that strange thumping -- yep, FLAT.

We didn't have tubes, patch kit, nuthin. After all the times I had all that stuff with me, and this time, nada. (I'd emptied my handlebar bag and put magazines in it!)

The shaftdrive bikes are much more complicated to take the rear tire off, so changing a tire is not something I've attempted. My husband has done it, but that day he said he was too busy, just take it to the bike shop and pay somebody!

So -- all they found was a teensy-tiny little hole -- like a wire or something had been stuck in it and then pulled out. So weird!

I have armadillo tires.