Bikers are a superstitious group by nature. I am no exception. I am not sure if it is riding with Jesse and Tom, or the ghosts of fallbrook. I am beginning to think that maybe Armedia Mountain has something in for me. I first flatted out there about 4 years ago. In fact I double flatted, patched up, then promptly flatted again with no more patches to bail me out. The next event came when Tom and Eric and I rode up on the mountain and picked up a stray pooch that literally followed us for hours, what a fiasco that was. The next incident happened while on my way to Fallbrook, I hit a dog with my cross bike. Then Tom and Jesse and I were riding on the mountain this spring and I pinch flatted. I hardly ever get flats, even when I hit a dog. Then tonight I flat out on the mountain in the most bizarre way. I was just riding along when suddenly a stick gets lodged between the two spokes where the valve stem sits. The stick snapped the valve stem right off. What are the chances of that happening? I think the next time I go up there I will wear full body armor, you know, just in case I end up hitting a bear or end up riding into an abandoned mine shaft or something. sheesh
2 comments:
The image of you falling into a mine shaft like Whiley Coyote comes to mind.
that happens more than you may think...old school New England riders are famous for riding with schrader valves to prevent this from happening.
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