"Andrew Swan" <
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> You must mean US$4 judging by the way you spelled "tyre", which is a bit more expensive in the
> nicely-coloured money we use here.
I pay roughly $7 per tube.
> Me, I always carry a spare tube, pump, and patch kit, whether I'm doing my 4km commute, my 30km
> morning training, a rec ride with my partner, or
Now, this is possibly one of the most pointless arguments i've had, but... on a 4k commute, when you
carry a spare tube, why do you need a patch kit too? I could walk the 4k quicker than I could remove
the tube, find the puncture, scrub it, whack some glue on, wait for it to go sticky, patch it, wait
a bit more, reinstall tube. Maybe on an out-of-the-way 100k training ride a patch kit is useful, but
30k's? How far away is public transport for you? I have it good because I ride along a train line,
but still, there's lots of people with cars and taxi's, buses, trains, trams, boats, planes.. okay
so I'm getting a little carried away
> if you'd been in Centennial Park (that's in Sydney, Australia) last week, you'd have seen me
> changing a tube then. If service stations were
So, Sydney-siders, how far away is the nearest servo and/or train station from Centennial Park?
> omnipresent and/or public transport went where I want, when I want it,
Service stations AREN'T omnipresent?!? They always seem that way to me! It can't be much more than a
2k walk between any servo on _my_ commute.
> at a sensible price, why would there be bike commuters in the first place (apart from it's fun and
> I don't have to jam my 187cm into a tiny bus seat next to a smelly tramp [that's "bum" to you in
> the US] or a kid with a doof-doof Walkman)?
Hey, leave the doofers alone!
hippy | yppih drunk, doofing and proud! (or something)