proninja
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tl:drI work at a bike shop. I'm not near smart enough to process that.
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Bicycle Commuters (1 Viewer)
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T Bell
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I ran over a folded and crushed beer bottle cap (got shaped into a spear point, basically) on my knobby-tired MBT which punctured the tire and then double punctured the inner tube. I managed to get the bike stopped from full speed without wrecking, which seems lucky in hindsight. I successfully patched the tube, but I've still got the hole in my tire. It's not gaping - it's one of those things that looks more like small cracks converging on a small gouge (much smaller in size than a pencil eraser), but of course if you bend the tire back you can clearly see the hole. In wet weather I'm sure at least a little water would get inside as I ride. I rode on it yesterday in dry weather as is for the first time and there were no problems.There's lots of good stuff online for patching tubes, but what would you recommend as a cheap, simple fix to patch a tire? This is my rear tire, so it's the one that will get replaced before too long anyway, so I'm just trying to squeeze a few hundred more miles out of it if I can. It it's helpful, I'm doing urban riding almost exclusively, with the only exception being the rare, light weight dirt walking trail.
It was tongue-in-cheek, GB. I'm just amused that there's an actual peer reviewed journal article on how traffic sensors can be optimized for bicycles.
T Bell
Footballguy
Thanks again, proninja. 
I figured it was something pretty simple, but even if I Google "tire patching" or something similar, it always shows tube patching stuff. I will add that I'm definitely enjoying getting back into biking. I hadn't ridden basically since high school when that was my primary way of commuting to and from school. I grew up delivering newspapers on my bike, at one time with two overlapping routes that I delivered at the same time. I biked pretty much everywhere. I missed it, and it's pretty cool how it's all come back to me and it's something I can now share with my son.
I figured it was something pretty simple, but even if I Google "tire patching" or something similar, it always shows tube patching stuff. I will add that I'm definitely enjoying getting back into biking. I hadn't ridden basically since high school when that was my primary way of commuting to and from school. I grew up delivering newspapers on my bike, at one time with two overlapping routes that I delivered at the same time. I biked pretty much everywhere. I missed it, and it's pretty cool how it's all come back to me and it's something I can now share with my son.
proninja
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Awesome. Biking is cool. I'm really excited because I'm changing stores (same company) from one that's 21 miles away to one that's 9 miles away. Basically puts me in the sweet spot of bike commuting distance.Thanks again, proninja.
grateful zed
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im heading to our shop today to clean my mt bike of all the winter grime. prolly a couple more weeks and i have the road bike out.
The Z Machine
Footballguy
No offense proninja, but aren't you a little small for a 29er? Wouldn't you prefer a 650b hardtail?
The Z Machine
Footballguy
BTW, my Civilian Le Roi Le Veut came last week (White, Blue and Red version). I've assembled it, but it's sitting with no pedals right now until I have time to dial it in. 
proninja
Footballguy
None taken. Im 5'9''. The physics of a bigger wheel don't change relative to height. It still rolls faster and smooths out the trail regardless of rider height. The challenge, especially in the earlier days of 29ers, is designing a frame that rides well for shorter riders with the big wheel. The reason the misconception that 29ers are only for tall people exists is because the wheelbases used to be really long and the bikes were kind of ungainly unless you were tall. That isn't the case anymore. My 5'6'' wife loves her 29er. I've got a couple girls on the shop race team rocking 29ers that are 5'2'' or so and love them - because the wheelbases are actually shorter and the bottom bracket lower than the 26'' bikes they came off. The bigger wheel bikes are actually more nimble in that case, so even at 5'2'' they get all the benefits of a big wheel and absolutely no drawback. Rider center of gravity is way more important than wheel center of gravity.I can't come up with a good reason to ride a smaller wheel on a hardtail unless you're sub five feet tall.
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proninja
Footballguy
That is a sick looking bikeBTW, my Civilian Le Roi Le Veut came last week (White, Blue and Red version). I've assembled it, but it's sitting with no pedals right now until I have time to dial it in.
But really, what sort of "dialing in" is there to do on a single speed? 
T Bell
Footballguy
These dream bike vacations sure seem to be dangerous. There was also that British couple who got killed in an auto accident in Thailand recently.
grateful zed
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eurotrashman
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Gianni Verscotchie
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So......all you guys got DUIs. Right?
