What I saw today..

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Could not believe my eyes. A person on a bike was riding down the sidewalk on his beat up road
bike without a tire on the rear rim. His=

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tire and tube were draped around his neck and he was doing about 10 mp=

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That coulda' been me, but a few years back. Massive pothole =3D> destro= yed =

back rim =3D> I had to get home again. I was around 20 miles from home = at =

the time. Luckily, I was able to get a ride for the last 10 or 15 miles=
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But those first 5-10 miles were a real treat.

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Dave dvt at psu dot edu

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Could not believe my eyes. A person on a bike was riding down the sidewalk on his beat up road
bike without a tire on the rear rim. His tire and tube were draped around his neck and he was
doing about 10 mph.

I did that a week ago. My rim was fubared and I needed a replacement anyways. One of the employees
at the LBS took it for a spin around the parking lot and said it was interesting.

That particular ride was to the LBS for a new tire, and it was no farther than a mile. I ended up
snapping a nipple near the end of the ride, and my ass was numb within 200 feet of leaving the front
door. I didn't think THAT much vibration could be transmitted through the saddle.

That made me a 100% disbeliever in the "steel is soft and aluminum is stiff" argument.

10 mph? That's about the max I could do before the wheel started hopping up in the air over bumps.

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Phil, Squid-in-Training

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That made me a 100% disbeliever in the "steel is soft and aluminum is stiff" argument.

but what about the shock absorbant saddle argument! 😉

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Could not believe my eyes. A person on a bike was riding down the sidewalk on his beat up road
bike without a tire on the rear rim. His tire and tube were draped around his neck and he was
doing about 10 mph.

Just had to share.

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Speaking of riding on the rim... ..there used to be a little guy in our club called "Lucho" - nick
named after the diminutive Columbian climber Luis Herrera. Lucho was a student and reputidly didn't
have a lot of money but somehow he always had the best of racing equipment. Because he was a lazy
[censored] he never bothered to maintain his equipment and constantly borrowed spare tires on training
spins when he punctured. He used to cycle two miles into college on a beat up MTB and when this
punctured he never fixed it and rode on a flat rear tire for nearly three weeks.

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Could not believe my eyes. A person on a bike was riding down the sidewalk on his beat up road
bike without a tire on the rear rim. His tire and tube were draped around his neck and he was
doing about 10 mph.

Just had to share.

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Bob Masse' [email hidden]
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A few years ago while out on my bike I had stopped at some lights in Hove & heard this noise coming
up from behind me. I looked round to find a rough looking guy riding along slowly with no tyres or
tubes on EITHER wheel. He tried to stop at the lights and fell off as the bike skidded. He then
stood up, raised his fists and asked if I "wanted some". Luckily the lights changed and I rode off.
A very strange experience.

Stan Cox

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Could not believe my eyes. A person on a bike was riding down the sidewalk on his beat up road
bike without a tire on the rear rim. His tire and tube were draped around his neck and he was
doing about 10 mph.

I've done something worse twice in my 25 years of adult cycling. I had a flat and my bike pump
failed. So I rode on the rim, with the tire and tube still attached. Both times it was about 7-8
miles distance. Neither time did I ruin the rim.

The first time I was in college and on my way to a final. I figured I can buy a new rim but not a
new grade. The second time I just had to make it back to work on a lunch time ride.

Tom

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That particular ride was to the LBS for a new tire, and it was no farther than a mile. I ended up
snapping a nipple near the end of the ride, and my ass was numb within 200 feet of leaving the
front door. I didn't think THAT much vibration could be transmitted through the saddle.

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I've done something worse twice in my 25 years of adult cycling. I had a flat and my bike pump
failed. So I rode on the rim, with the tire and tube still attached. Both times it was about 7-8
miles distance. Neither time did I ruin the rim.

I won a race, an itty bitty race, like that -- rode a flat tire (a tubular) for many miles till I
changed it. Then caught up and won.

JT
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wheel. He tried to stop at the lights and fell off as the bike skidded. He then stood up, raised
his fists and asked if I "wanted some". Luckily the lights changed and I rode off. A very strange
experience.

Stan Cox

"Uh, no thanks. I'm straight."

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soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what
would be an unwinnable urban guerilla war, it could only plunge that part of the world into ever
greater instability." George Bush Sr. in his 1998 book "A World Transformed"

In one of the cross country MTB races in connecticut this year, one of the pro riders got a flat..
fixed it.. got another flat and was without a patch or tube.. took of the tire/tube ( front wheel)..
finished the race.. passed other riders and actually won the race!

charlie

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Could not believe my eyes. A person on a bike was riding down the sidewalk on his beat up road
bike without a tire on the rear rim. His tire and tube were draped around his neck and he was
doing about 10 mph.

On 10/9* last month, some of the folks in the cycle messenger community held a "rim ride", which is
a sort of tradition 'round these parts. I was able to attend, and it was my first rim ride.

I retrieved a structurally sound 27" steel wheel with a nasty hub from my LBS's trash pile. After
tensioning and truing it (the better to survive the evening's adventure under my ponderous weight),
I mounted the victim wheel on my old 27" Nishiki one-speed. I rode to the start point with front and
rear tires mounted, then removed the rear one in preparation for the ride.

At the time I arrived, the inaugural keg of beer had just floated, but the fun had only begun. There
were about 40 riders present for the cruise, and some of them had opted to run no tires at all! So
that made about 50 bare metal wheels rolling at one time. The racket was hellish-- both loud and
ominous, sort of roaring, howling, and hissing all at the same time.

I will note that no overinflated, airless, solid urethane, or semi-pneumatic tire can prepare one
for exactly how harsh it is to ride on a bare rim. I will also note that metal rims offer relatively
little in the way of traction. I did not slip and fall, but several riders did-- some repeatedly.

I had the benefit of a sprung saddle, but most of the messengers would never ride such a thing, and
so had only their scant natural padding to save their bones. One of my companions was riding a
trials MTB with no tires, and he was bunny-hopping and engaging in other contextually questionable
maneuvers.

I was held back with a repair job on a buddy's tallbike (also out rim riding), so I missed the pass
through the enormous bowl-shaped fountain at Seattle Center. It's probably just as well, because by
ride's end my wheel had begun collapsing and was fluttering around almost enough to scrape the frame
with its new serrated razor edges.

Some aluminum rims had broken outright, but all the steel rims finished in one piece. At the end of
the ride, some riders stomped/beat their wheels to death, I suppose as an act of mercy.

Later, many more beers were drunk in commemoration of the event.

Chalo Colina

* "10-9" is radio operator code for "huh?" It is a slogan/mantra of the bike messenger crowd here
in Seattle.