2021 mileage: 3908.9
As a riding day, today was replete with adventure. I set off just past 10:00, intending to ride my frequent ride of almost 14 miles ... but I only got about a mile and a half down Lohr Rd. before I heard a loud PSSSST from the back tire, followed by sluggish handling. It had blown, and since my recent problems with that tire, which uses a larger size tube than the front ones, I had used up the only spare I had. (I've ordered others from Amazon, but they've not yet arrived.)
So I texted Michelle, who came promptly and happily to pick me up, and after returning home I put the carrying rack on our car and went back down to bring the trike home. I thought I was out of luck, until she reminded me that when I got my trike last October, I kept the old one as a backup. VOILA!
Upon returning home, I dug it out of the back of the garage, and blithely (AND STUPIDLY) set off to ride. Stupidly because, although it's been sitting unused in our garage since October, I didn't think to check the tires. By three quarters of a mile, I could tell that a problem was brewing .... as demonstrated by the audible WHUFF of the tire as it rotated, and the sluggish handling. So I turned around and made it back home (slowly but safely, as it turns out).
That trike also fails to turn nearly as adroitly as the new one does, which almost caused me to run off the sidewalk on a couple of turns, The picture here is one Michelle took of me on it 4 years ago, in August 2017.
At any rate, I sort of feel as if I should "suck it up" and go air up the tire and try again. But two unsuccessful attempts have sapped me of my ambition, so I'm going to let it go until tomorrow, allowing a sad total of 3.6 miles in 31 minute suffice for today.
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