On 2018-05-09 02:56, Duane wrote:
wrote:
On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 5:47:48 AM UTC+2, jbeattie wrote:
On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 7:02:00 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 5/7/2018 9:28 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 4:39:31 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:

And what do you do for the front? Bikes have two wheels. Call your wife
from the hospital that dinner is off tonight, and the next 10-20 days?

Wow, you're a nervous nelly. And what about the front? We're talking
about a rear wheel and a casing scuff. If it were on the front tire,
I'd keep an eye on it. I've ridden front tires booted with a $1 bill
for many, many miles.

On our coast-to-coast tour, my daughter got a gash over 1/2" in the
front tire of her Terry bike. That bike has an odd size front wheel.
Late Saturday in South Dakota, there was absolutely no way to get a
replacement tire. Ditto Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday... The best
we could do was to call Terry Inc. on Monday and get it quick-shipped to
the next bike shop on our route, which was well over a hundred miles away.

On the road, I triple-booted the tire and we ran low pressure the rest
of that day. In the motel, I stitched the gash back together as well as
I could, re-did the internal boots, and rode the tire all those miles to
that bike shop.

I guess Joerg would have taken a taxi?

No, Joerg's tire would have exploded violently, blowing his body parts
all over the road. He would have been mailed home in a giant Ziplock
bag. Mundane mechanical failures are catastrophic, life endangering events for Joerg.


I don't know, met or talked to anyone that:
- break so many parts on a regular base,
- met so many people who do so also,
- is so scared of events that could happen.

It is so remarkable that I tend to not believing him or doubting his
riding skills. Hitting a pothole in a tunnel at high speed? WTF? What was
he thinking? When I enter a dark tunnel I reduce my speed...

Lou


Apparently after further questioning the hill wasn’t very steep, the
pothole wasn’t very deep and the tunnel wasn’t very dark. It was the fault
of the tire.


Sure it was. That's why I am saying the whole time that tires with wimpy
side walls are junk.

--
Regards, Joerg

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