The walk of shame

[snubbyfan]

At the risk of showing my foolishness one more time . . . you could also get those little rubber spacers that allow your wife's bike to use presta valves.

It kind of depends on your druthers, but schrader valves have always been awkward for me with most pumps . . . fine at the gas station or if you have a compressor, admittedly.

Of course, you will probably wait to use up the spares you have . . . could be another decade.

I am going to be quiet now and learn from your experiences.

Enabling my wife's bike to use presta valves is actually a good idea. I can just keep one kind of tube in stock.

The learnin's going both ways.

 

[TucsonMTB]

I am confident in your Google skills.

 

[Triathloncoach]

I've had to walk my bikes in several times during races. Road and off road.

You can look at the bright side and appreciate it's been so long since you flatted out that spare tubs had dry rot. You had been lucky for too long.

 

[snubbyfan]

I am confident in your Google skills.

I'm a black belt in Google-Fu, however my wife just reminded me that I'm not allowed to change anything else on her bike.
Thanks anyway.

 

[snubbyfan]

I've had to walk my bikes in several times during races. Road and off road.

You can look at the bright side and appreciate it's been so long since you flatted out that spare tubs had dry rot. You had been lucky for too long.

Yeah, it was bound to happen sooner or later.

 

[EugeneNine]

I had to do a handelbar bag for the spare tubes, the seat bags get in the way of the trail a bike.

 

[Lt JL]

Well, a bit of a drift, but I once tore the sole off of my cross-country ski boot 5 K into a 10 K trail. What a flying face plant THAT was!

 

[Doug M.]

I had such high hopes for this string.

 

[snubbyfan]

Well, a bit of a drift, but I once tore the sole off of my cross-country ski boot 5 K into a 10 K trail. What a flying face plant THAT was!

I'm happy to say that as many time as I've been over the handle bars I've never face planted. I always managed to put a shoulder down and roll with it.