Well we are having a spell of really decent weather and I'm struggling to take advantage of it. I managed to sneak an hour very early yesterday morning - even got a KOM on a somewhat risky segment, but felt the lack of traffic reduced the risk.
I then had to go to Glasgow by train and took my bike. My 30 year old steel bike with 30 year old tyres. It sat in a steel cage / shed thing all day and on the way back to Queen Street station I was making good progress when there was a bang like a gunshot and my rear wheel had punctured. I pushed to the station, and when I got home realised I had a 3 inch long split in the tube. Now going from what I have read on here the tube can't do that unless it has room to expand, so I'm kind of thinking the heat had raised the pressure and the tyre must have become unseated, allowing the tube to expand rapidly and pop.I've changed the tube and hope its going to be okay.
To cap it all I went out for a ride this morning, in what should have been near perfect conditions and landed up grumpy and bad-tempered, niggling at cars / drivers. As a result of my petulance I made a couple of mistakes as well, which further annoyed me.
I'm from a fishing background and a local guy wrote a poem saying the sun, the moon and the stars are more often seen together than good catches, fine weather and high fish prices. The cycling equivalent would be good weather, a well behaved bike and helpful traffic.
I then had to go to Glasgow by train and took my bike. My 30 year old steel bike with 30 year old tyres. It sat in a steel cage / shed thing all day and on the way back to Queen Street station I was making good progress when there was a bang like a gunshot and my rear wheel had punctured. I pushed to the station, and when I got home realised I had a 3 inch long split in the tube. Now going from what I have read on here the tube can't do that unless it has room to expand, so I'm kind of thinking the heat had raised the pressure and the tyre must have become unseated, allowing the tube to expand rapidly and pop.I've changed the tube and hope its going to be okay.
To cap it all I went out for a ride this morning, in what should have been near perfect conditions and landed up grumpy and bad-tempered, niggling at cars / drivers. As a result of my petulance I made a couple of mistakes as well, which further annoyed me.
I'm from a fishing background and a local guy wrote a poem saying the sun, the moon and the stars are more often seen together than good catches, fine weather and high fish prices. The cycling equivalent would be good weather, a well behaved bike and helpful traffic.
