You get what you pay for

I have currently got an old Bennett steel frame that I am converting to a
fixie......it is too small for me but I thought that someone might be able
to get some use out of it as a pub bike. Anyway, the bike has 27 x 1.25
inch tyres and it only had one on the front. I was riding home through
Clifton Hill the last week and it must have been hard waste
night......outside one house was a stack of tyres and, sure enough, one of
them was a 27 x 1.25 that was dirty but looked to be OK. I half-hinched it
and fitted it on the bike this arvo with a new tube that I bought. Went for
a quick spin at it actually felt pretty good.....I inverted and chopped the
original roadie bars and have only the front brakes on (operable from the
flat part of the bar). It is a pretty low gear (17T on the back and not
sure on the front but I think around 40 or so) with old-style platform
pedals but it felt OK. Back to the shed, adjusted the cowhorns slightly up
then went out for another quick spin. Got about 10m then "bang", ther rear
tyre blew out - basically the sidewall had separated from the wire bead and
the inner tube had exploded through it (only put 60 psi in it).

Also forgot to mention, before fitting it I ran my finger around the inside
to check for any bits of glass, etc and managed to scoop out a big fat
white-tailed spider......scared the crap out of me as it landed on my
forearm briefly before dropping to the ground......luckily it didn't decide
to bite me!!

So now I am up for another tube and tyre - anyone got any laying around that
they might want to part with on the cheap??

Gags

Gags Wrote:
So now I am up for another tube and tyre - anyone got any laying around
that they might want to part with on the cheap?

Can you see the irony of that given the title of your post? :-).


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SomeGuy

"SomeGuy" wrote in message
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Gags Wrote:
So now I am up for another tube and tyre - anyone got any laying around
that they might want to part with on the cheap?

Can you see the irony of that given the title of your post? :-).



touche'

managed to scoop out a big fat
white-tailed spider......scared the crap out of me as it landed on my
forearm briefly before dropping to the ground......luckily it didn't
decide
to bite me!!


Apparently, White-Tails are only dangerous for newborns and the elderly
- tiny fangs - or so i've been told.

gm


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gravelmuncher

Gags wrote:

So now I am up for another tube and tyre - anyone got any laying around that
they might want to part with on the cheap??

Gags


Hey Gags I think I have one spare. It's a 1.25 slick on the front of my
old commuter that is being converted to MTB. If you have some semblance
of an MTB tyre with some form of knobbies I'd be happy to swap.

DaveB

On 2007-03-31, gravelmuncher (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

managed to scoop out a big fat
white-tailed spider......scared the crap out of me as it landed on my
forearm briefly before dropping to the ground......luckily it didn't
decide
to bite me!!

I forgot about this post...

Apparently, White-Tails are only dangerous for newborns and the elderly
- tiny fangs - or so i've been told.

.... and then wondered what the source of the dream I woke up to
this morning, was. Now I remember.

Thanks gags for giving me nightmares.

Tonight I'm going to have a nightmare about a wasp ending up in my
helmet, aren't I?

--
TimC
bash awk grep perl sed df du, du-du du-du,
vi troff su fsck rm * halt LART LART LART!
-- the Swedish BOFH

Hey Gags I think I have one spare. It's a 1.25 slick on the front of my
old commuter that is being converted to MTB. If you have some semblance of
an MTB tyre with some form of knobbies I'd be happy to swap.

DaveB

Dave, you're on.......I have just emailed you.

Gags

TimC wrote:
On 2007-03-31, gravelmuncher (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
managed to scoop out a big fat
white-tailed spider......scared the crap out of me as it landed on my
forearm briefly before dropping to the ground......luckily it didn't
decide
to bite me!!

I forgot about this post...

Apparently, White-Tails are only dangerous for newborns and the elderly
- tiny fangs - or so i've been told.

... and then wondered what the source of the dream I woke up to
this morning, was. Now I remember.

Thanks gags for giving me nightmares.

Tonight I'm going to have a nightmare about a wasp ending up in my
helmet, aren't I?


Hopefully tomorrow night you don't have a nightmare about earwigs making
a nest in your ear.

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Ben - Wipe off 25

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