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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:36:40 -0600, [email protected]
wrote:
>On 18 Jun 2004 13:23:41 GMT, [email protected]
>(MikeYankee) wrote:
>
>>>no-flat-tire streak now stands at 49 rides
>>
>>I'll probably go out and flat today, but haven't had a flat since Aug. 8 last
>>year, 156 rides and 5883 miles ago -- my longest streak ever.
>>
>>Before that, I must have had a dozen flats in two months, including a memorable
>>five on one ride. Roads around here are pretty clean (no goatheads in NY
>>state).
>>
>>I ride normal tires, by the way (Axial Pros or cheap Vittorias, depending on
>>the bike), with decent ultralite tubes (Kenda of Salsa when I can find them,
>>sometimes Torelli or Vittoria, NEVER Michelin or Performance).
>>
>>
>>Mike Yankee
>>
>>(Address is munged to thwart spammers.
>>To reply, delete everything after "com".)
>
>Dear Mike,
>
>Ultralite tubes? New York sounds more like batting practice
>(you lucky devil) than real pitching from goatheads.
>
>When looking for its first spokesman, the Mr. Coffee company
>insisted on streaks involving nine-inning games against
>major-league pitchers.
>
>Your 5,883-mile streak for 156 rides makes New York's feeble
>flat-tire threat look even more minor-league when converted
>to 392 flat-free Fogel-standard 15-mile rides. (Good God,
>which wears out first, your tire or your tube?)
>
>No, I can't see you edging me out for the endorsement
>contract. The Mr. Coffee company is understandably not
>interested in using tee-ball batting-averages to push its
>product--ground beans is their motto, not boiled leaves.
>
>Of course, the Celestial Seasonings company may be looking
>for someone to sell more Earl Grey tea, but don't shave your
>head yet.
>
>J.-L. Picard
Aaaargh!
Even as I typed, my rear tire was quietly oozing green
anti-flat slime around a minute rock chip stuck in a tiny
cut from yesterday's ride.
At least I had the long-forgotten pleasure of peeling a
tube out from the inside of a tire. Normally, my tubes don't
stay in the tire long enough to do whatever makes them stick
to the interior.
My current flat-free streak now stands at one ride.
Carl Fogel
wrote:
>On 18 Jun 2004 13:23:41 GMT, [email protected]
>(MikeYankee) wrote:
>
>>>no-flat-tire streak now stands at 49 rides
>>
>>I'll probably go out and flat today, but haven't had a flat since Aug. 8 last
>>year, 156 rides and 5883 miles ago -- my longest streak ever.
>>
>>Before that, I must have had a dozen flats in two months, including a memorable
>>five on one ride. Roads around here are pretty clean (no goatheads in NY
>>state).
>>
>>I ride normal tires, by the way (Axial Pros or cheap Vittorias, depending on
>>the bike), with decent ultralite tubes (Kenda of Salsa when I can find them,
>>sometimes Torelli or Vittoria, NEVER Michelin or Performance).
>>
>>
>>Mike Yankee
>>
>>(Address is munged to thwart spammers.
>>To reply, delete everything after "com".)
>
>Dear Mike,
>
>Ultralite tubes? New York sounds more like batting practice
>(you lucky devil) than real pitching from goatheads.
>
>When looking for its first spokesman, the Mr. Coffee company
>insisted on streaks involving nine-inning games against
>major-league pitchers.
>
>Your 5,883-mile streak for 156 rides makes New York's feeble
>flat-tire threat look even more minor-league when converted
>to 392 flat-free Fogel-standard 15-mile rides. (Good God,
>which wears out first, your tire or your tube?)
>
>No, I can't see you edging me out for the endorsement
>contract. The Mr. Coffee company is understandably not
>interested in using tee-ball batting-averages to push its
>product--ground beans is their motto, not boiled leaves.
>
>Of course, the Celestial Seasonings company may be looking
>for someone to sell more Earl Grey tea, but don't shave your
>head yet.
>
>J.-L. Picard
Aaaargh!
Even as I typed, my rear tire was quietly oozing green
anti-flat slime around a minute rock chip stuck in a tiny
cut from yesterday's ride.
At least I had the long-forgotten pleasure of peeling a
tube out from the inside of a tire. Normally, my tubes don't
stay in the tire long enough to do whatever makes them stick
to the interior.
My current flat-free streak now stands at one ride.
Carl Fogel