Glad I could provide some entertainment!
Update: I skipped doing my hair and makeup so I could get the stupid nut out of the stupid tire. It wasn't too too bad - I didn't have to take the wheel off to do it. Everybody at work was wondering why I looked so awful, though.
Tomorrow I'll try to ride the thing. Hopefully everything's on right!
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Thread: Changed my first *&^)_&&^%$ tire
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10-20-2009, 09:17 PM #1
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10-20-2009, 11:30 PM #2
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I feel your pain too. For some reason something always seems to go wrong when I have to fix a tire. I can do a patch job ok, but I'm terrible at replacing tubes. Can never seem to get enough strength out of my spaghetti arms to get that last bit of the tire on. Very frustrating!!!
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10-21-2009, 12:31 AM #3
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Hey Krisl there is a Flemish cycling forum where there's a thread about which tubes go well with which types of wheels. Very handy!
Originally Posted by krisl6
http://www.wielertoerist.be/forum/vi...p?f=55&t=20961My cycling hero: http://www.cyclinghalloffame.com/rid...asp?rider_id=1
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10-21-2009, 02:25 AM #4
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I have no problem replacing the tube, getting the tire back on. It's putting the rear wheel back on. I have been to at least 3 classes, where I manage to do it, and practice every winter, but the last time I practiced, my DH came home to find me sitting on the front step, crying, with my bike in pieces.
Yea, I know the tricks (putting the chain on the biggest cog, big chain ring), but I can't manage to lift the bike with one hand, pull back the deurailler with the other and get the chain back on. More than once, I've hurt my back trying to do so!
Well, I have had only had flats twice while out on the road in ten years. Thankfully I was with someone else at the time. Pretty much, this is why I don't do long rides alone. And I pump my tires every time I ride, don't ride in the rain if I can help it.
I know, I'm hopeless.
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10-21-2009, 02:59 AM #5
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Oh goodness, it's putting the chain on the smallest cog to take tension off the chain/derailleur springs, and have the derailleur closest to the dropout.
No wonder you're having trouble!
Try it that way next time...Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler
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10-21-2009, 03:20 AM #6
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No, I just wrote it wrong.... I know which cog to put it on.
I am trying everything I can to avoid working on my part of a group therapy simulation I have to do for a class, so my mind is kind of jumbled. In fact, I think I am going on a group ride and will do my work afterwards!
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10-21-2009, 03:30 AM #7
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Hmmmmm...
Learning to trust people you might not ordinarily interact with.
Mutually allowing each other into a position to do each other serious harm, trusting that they won't.
Learning to set appropriate boundaries, getting very close to get the "job" done, but not so close that you get interlinked and bring the whole group down.
Letting other see you at your worst.
Is that group therapy, or a paceline?
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10-21-2009, 03:19 AM #8
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Originally Posted by papaver
Wow that is very handy! Thanks for the tip!
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