[Yak] I'm glad that YOU think it's funny.... :-(

[Andy Heath]

> Two years ago, I gave "The Object of My Affection"  an inexpensive  pewter 
> pin (the type that presses through cloth to be secured on the reverse by  a 
> clutch...not unlike military uniform devices). She installed it on the front  her 
> handlebar bag.

I love my bike too but I stop short of calling it "she" and
buying pins for "her" handlebar bag ;-) :-)

all in good fun

-andy
>  
> Now, I told you THAT in order to tell you THIS:
>  
>  
> This past weekend, and even dozen of us rode north up the Croton  Aqueduct 
> Trail...a tens-of -miles-long, dirt single-track (read  continuously rugged and 
> jarring)....in short: a real "loose equipment" test if  ever there was one. 
>  
> About two miles into the excursion a fellow rider flatted, and  I stayed back 
> in order to expedite his repair while the balance of the  riders pressed on 
> ahead (we had to make a train at the other end).  
>  
> This issue (he had another flat on his OTHER tire a few miles after we  
> resumed riding) had us pushing hard, up the rutted trail in order to  close the 30 
> minute gap between ourselves and the main body of the ride. 
>  
> Upon transitioning from forested singletrack to a macadamized surface as  the 
> trail traversed a village, I detected a regular, syncopated  "tick-tick-tick" 
> sound.  
>  
> "Must be a leaf or a twig stuck in the brakes...Maybe it'll just work  itself 
> out.... Tires seem fine...brakes working OK....Everything FEELS  fine......".
>  
> Pausing to cross a street a minute later, I had a casual look at the  source 
> of the sound...a silverish thing of some kind...looking  straight up at me 
> (owing to the fact that it's fixing pin was sticking into my 3  hour-old 
> puncture-resistant front tire).
>  
> Dismounting, I poked it with my grimy-from-two-time-tire-changing  index 
> finger and was rewarded with a small hiss of air that immediately  stopped when I 
> "un-poked".
>  
> ::blink...blink::
>  
> "My brand new tire..." 
>  
>  ::make bad face::
>  
> ::re-poke::
>  
> "HSSSS"
>  
> ::make "resigned-to-ones-fate" face::
>  
> ::pick pewter pin off with grimy-from-two-time-tire-changing  fingernail::
>  
> "HISSSSSSSSSSSssssssss"  
>  
> ::blink...blink::
>  
> ::sigh::
>  
> "Wait a minute...I know that pin..."
>  
> ugh.....
>  
>  
>  
> John
>  
>  
> John T. Chiarella  (Fixer3 at aol.com)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Cheers

andy
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andy heath
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