At least I know how to get a flat in style

SamWise72

I had a visit from the PF a couple of weeks ago, fixed it on the station platform, despite Brompton's Gordian knot style chain tensioner, but being an idiot, I hadn't got a new spare tube. Last night, I arrived in Doncaster by train, and needed to be ten miles away in Wath for 10:30. I thought "Rather than get a taxi with tax payer's money (It's a public body I'm working with today), I'll cycle. 10 miles across Yorkshire will be nice. That's how I know fund myself standing at the roadside in the middle of nowhere in the drizzle, waiting for a taxi driver who can't find me *sigh*

rjsterry

I thought you meant flat as in '2 bedroom, ground floor flat! I was thinking, "well this must be some pretty high level hustling to blag a whole apartment."

SamWise72

Hehehe Well, I didn't want to use the P word!

yakk

Ah, some would argue that the F word is worse... At least you didn't use the C word!
Yak

meanredspider

I got halfway through my commute (7 miles back home, 8 miles to work) when I ended up with 6 snakebites :oops:

Was traveling rather too fast down a lane on my road bike - hit a first pothole that I guess caused the first bites (F&R) then, with the tyres going down, the subsequent smaller potholes caused the rest. Actually fixed one flat before realising that the same inner had 2 more pairs of holes and that the front tyre was flat too...

...time to call the missus!

flateric

Brand new road bike, first ride, covered an easy 10 miles, set up for fast right turn in too junction, not noticed rapid deflation of front tire then took spectacular slide across junction as front wheel with flat tire gave up grip on road completely leaving front wheel skidding on rim.