true confessions time.
I can change a car tire. I have done it.
But last year when i got so many flats on my raleigh bike, i got very skillful in networking men who work here who have bike savvy. My very kind and patient hubby taught me how to change a flat and patch the tube... so i did all that, with friendly guys all round watching me. Then the patch did not stick EVEN THOUGH i did exactly what i was supposed to do.
So.. back to my guy network. Pretty pathetic. At my company we have security guards, and one of them is a biker.. and we have mechanics with shop air and
an attachment to the shop air to inflate bike tires....
anyway, i am still striving for independence and yesterday i noticed one of my tires was low on air and i took the dumb miniature pump that my DH lovingly placed in my pack and deflated the tire almost completely.
Fortunately a 24 year old young engineer who used to race bikes in college was in the next room, so I got him to show me what i did wrong, and in less than a minute he'd gotten the tube re-inflated.