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Caroline
Guest
"mrbubl" <[email protected]> wrote
> Caroline wrote:
>
> > Update:
> >
> > Bought the Crank Brothers Speed Lever. snip....
>
>
> For future reference if you have some really tight tires as spares,
> mount them for a couple of days then take them off and they will be much
> easier when you really need them.
Indeed, I should have mentioned that, had I not also been installing a brand new
outer tire, the difficulty would have been much less. (I tried installing the
old tire to experiment a bit, expecting it to be easier, and noticed this.)
> Found this out the hard way in the
> middle of BF nowhere without prior experience. Found out the hard way
> what you really need in the way of "necessories" should include a folder
> for those glass bottles that don't know when to say stop along with a
> tube patch kit pump.....etc.....
Ya, I forgot I'll have to go buy a bike-mountable pump. Or get back the old
boyfriend who used to carry one for the two of us(!) ;-)
Caroline
"Dames... "
> Caroline wrote:
>
> > Update:
> >
> > Bought the Crank Brothers Speed Lever. snip....
>
>
> For future reference if you have some really tight tires as spares,
> mount them for a couple of days then take them off and they will be much
> easier when you really need them.
Indeed, I should have mentioned that, had I not also been installing a brand new
outer tire, the difficulty would have been much less. (I tried installing the
old tire to experiment a bit, expecting it to be easier, and noticed this.)
> Found this out the hard way in the
> middle of BF nowhere without prior experience. Found out the hard way
> what you really need in the way of "necessories" should include a folder
> for those glass bottles that don't know when to say stop along with a
> tube patch kit pump.....etc.....
Ya, I forgot I'll have to go buy a bike-mountable pump. Or get back the old
boyfriend who used to carry one for the two of us(!) ;-)
Caroline
"Dames... "