Tire changing in a hurry (do not let anyone do this to you)

[Grog]

Thanks for the kind words ladies! I needed to share that story. It's been all the more frustrating recently because he's been telling my neighbor - whom I've initiated to cycling - that I was way to cautious when changing flat tires. Grrrr!!!

[Trek420]

Thanks for the kind words ladies! I needed to share that story. It's been all the more frustrating recently because he's been telling my neighbor - whom I've initiated to cycling - that I was way to cautious when changing flat tires. Grrrr!!!

Guess he's truly learned the lesson when he adds to that "but on the other hand that can be a good thing "

Hopefully your two divergent styles can balance each other out.

One of my ol' Aikido teachers used to say "you don't get faster by going faster. You get faster by going slowly and taking all the "stops" out".

So maybe you should change the tire more often, each time you get more efficient. Ultimately you're as fast as him, and more careful

Somewhere here there's a thread about a ride that Thom and V, I forget who had the flat and without thinking about it they just choreographed the fix like a NASCAR pit crew

[Kano]

When we watched the tire changing demo, teacher showed feeling the inside of the tire for hazards -- when I changed my first, I knew it was the valve issue, but decided to make the habit. DH had a flat lately that he created for himself when he poked the tube with a spoke he was repairing. He fumed at me about "check your tire" cuz we knew the cause, but I said, MAKE THE HABIT, and he did it anyway!


He may also have made another new habit -- remove the tire while fixing the spokes...

Karen in Boise