aka Tom Reingold
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Posts: 40,506
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
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My wife went out with her girlfriend to a concert last night. We were going to ride the Tour De Bronx today (which we did end up doing). She asked me to change the pedals on her bike and move the saddle forward a bit. I got the bike out of the basement and found her front tire flat. The rip in the tube was on the rim side, probably from using a too-narrow tube. My bike crap is a mess, so I couldn't find my home patch kit and didn't want to use my on-the-bike patch kit. I was able to find one spare tube, but it was made for 25mm tires, and she has 37mm tires. So I was making the problem even more likely to recur. But we rode the ride, and no problem so far. I hope I remember to change her tube(s) before too long.
I changed her pedals. I forgot to move her saddle forward, but I was able to do that on the subway we took on the way to the ride's start point. The pedals came from the box o' crap, so that's good news. She was amused, as she enjoys my stories of the box o' crap.