Whiskey's Great Adventure.

Wiskey · 10-02-2006, 11:45 PM

Over the last year or so I have been loosing weight, 100Lbs so far, now that I am trying to quit smoking I have doubled the weight loss effort because quitting smoking tends to make you eat. What this means is allot of time on my bicycle when the weather allows.

Tonight I decided to ride my bike down to Ocean Floor to pick up some declor I am getting to try and find out why I loose every new fish I put in my FW planted 180 but don't loose old ones.

This is a ride that is a round trip of about 12 miles, nothing too serious, but it is a work night.

I get to ocean floor, picked up what I need and left, about 1/4 mile into my way back I hit a broken beer bottle, it is night time, and it didn't show up by my headlight which had switched to flash/powersave mode about 10 min earlier because the batteries were dieing. The front tire made it through, but the back tire was a complete blowout.

I have about 6 miles to go, and I have this slime in the tire I am hoping sealed the hole. So I push it to a Checkers auto parts and borrow a pump, I try and inflate the tire, and no such luck

So I the guy there lets me borrow a hand full of tools, I buy a patch kit and go at patching the hole, get the major cut patched, try to inflate and find about 9 more holes, BLAST!

Well because of the slime I manage to get the tire to hold about 6 PSI, and continue riding on my way with that, and the sicking sound of the rim hitting the pavement with every small bump.

I find a Sports center in a strip mall about 2 miles later, buy a tube but they don't have tools

but they do have more slime and a pump. So I buy another full bottle of slime, and fill the tire up, now it holds about 20 PSI!

I continue to limp it home on that and now I am working replacing the inner tube, I am going to use the old one on top of the new one to help protect it for next time.

What a night, not what I expected,
Whiskey

mcarver · 10-02-2006, 11:49 PM

Sounds like Murphy was riding with you..
Glad you made it home safe.

Doug1 · 10-03-2006, 12:06 AM

Sorry bout the misfortune Whiskey, I am a firm believer in a sparet tube and a tool kit, as well as a can of fix aflat or a frame mounted pump.
I once made it home off the mountain in my old bronco with a 4 slash in sidewall, ciut a large chunk of rubber floormat and used gasket cement on the smooth side. Forced it thru the gash and positioned it with hemostats from !st aid kit, squirted it full of fix a flat and used 12v pump but goit home, flat at 9 pm , made it home 23 miles(goat trail) before midnite, oh it was POURING rain and windy

Wiskey · 10-03-2006, 12:12 AM

And now I just put a big hole in the new tube with a screwdriver

Out comes the patch kit.

Whiskey

Wiskey · 10-03-2006, 12:14 AM

Geez Doug, or should I call McGiver?

That is inventive though, very inventive.

Ya I made it, ticked off, but I made it. BTW what ever happened to gas stations with air pumps? None of the ones I stoped at had them

Whiskey

mcarver · 10-03-2006, 12:37 AM

I think they took out the air pumps when they decided full service was worthless. Ahh those were the days.. .35 a gallon and "Can we check yer oil sir?" ahhhhh memories.

Wiskey · 10-03-2006, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by mcarver

I think they took out the air pumps when they decided full service was worthless. Ahh those were the days.. .35 a gallon and "Can we check yer oil sir?" ahhhhh memories.

I know but they used to have those $0.50 macheens,...

I was not alive in those days, but in Oregon you have to have your gas pumped, can't do it yourself,... State law.

Whiskey

dobejazz · 10-03-2006, 01:40 AM

Wow Wiskey I'm glad you made it home OK

FishDaddy · 10-03-2006, 06:32 AM

What a ride! Glad the blowout didn't make you crash and hurt yourself.

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Originally Posted by Wiskey

I was not alive in those days, but in Oregon you have to have your gas pumped, can't do it yourself,... State law.

So, the wise Oregonian guvmint doesn't trust its citizens to pump gas? They even let you do that in Vermont, one of the most environmentalistic states in the Union.

Maybe they should make steel-belted radials for bicycles.

Dick

abigtroutt · 10-03-2006, 07:56 AM

Whiskey Congrats on the 100+ thats awesome..!!! For your bike you need thoes quick disconnects for the tires and a CO2 kit to pump up your tires in a pinch! Works great I used them alot when I was riding on a team

hng · 10-03-2006, 08:29 AM

Glad you made it back home, congrats on the weight loss, and good luck with quiting smoking!

theplatypus · 10-03-2006, 08:35 AM

Sounds like big fun. Congratulations on the losing the weight. I'm right there with you on the quitting smoking thing.

VWD · 10-03-2006, 09:45 AM

Congrats on the 100lbs and I know you can stop smoking.

Full service, I remember when them days. as far as the air machines, I swear it seem like more air leaves your tire then goes in. LOL

Doug1 · 10-03-2006, 10:49 AM

Seems like the coin op air is getting scarcer. Yah on no self serv, tho I do cardlock so I do my own, at least with the work truck.
More stations are going to the credit card reader pumps so I suspect that pump jockeys will go the way of the loggers

Wiskey · 10-03-2006, 11:51 AM

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So, the wise Oregonian guvmint doesn't trust its citizens to pump gas? They even let you do that in Vermont, one of the most environmentalistic states in the Union.

No, it's not that, it's a work creation thing, more jobs.

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Maybe they should make steel-belted radials for bicycles.

I'd be the first in line to buy one too! I had some tubes when I used to mountian bike that had really thick rubber on the outside, I mean REALLY thick, but I can't find them anywhere anymore.

Whiskey