I love riding with other people. I particularly love riding with my lovely wife. When it rains (which is rarely on the Front Range) it pours. Tonight as Mandy and I rode home after church we discovered that we each had a leaking tube. Mandy’s rear tire was spewing goo and the offending object was clacking on the pavement. My front tire went drastically low a few minutes later and I had to stop and put some air in it. We raced toward home. I was uncharacteristically unprepared. We didn’t have a spare tube for either bike. I found out later I only had two patches with me. We were trying to make it before either of us went completely flat. We ... 349 days ago
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