On the way to the supermarket (the nice Fry's (anyone notice how there's always a ghetto Fry's near a nice Fry's) it's a longer ride, and has an awesome natural foods section) I had a tube eat it... no biggie (heh) I pulled over into the circle K parking lot, and changed out the stock tube (it was so thin I think I could take it to a kid's birthday party and make animals out of it... I'm getting more like that for race day... but until then) I put the new tube in (much thicker) and started to inflate it... only to realize that I hadn't entirely seated the bead... I deflated the tire, and seated it, only to discover that that was the end of the CO2 cartridge.
UPDATE:
got up this morning... tire was flat... looks like the tube cracked
Lessons Learned:
- I need better tubes for training/general riding
- Carry a couple spare CO2 cartridges, and a second spare tube wouldn't be a bad idea
- Coming home at 15-20 mph with food in my back pack would be more fun than walking home with a flat tube in there
- It's a good thing paragon is so close... see you guys on tuesday
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