Getting a flat tire on your bike sucks – usually The weather was pretty nice on Saturday, and my partner, kid and I were headed back to Oakland after a soccer game. We had left Alameda and were heading back home along the Embaracdero. It was a pretty calm ride, as we were all tired, and we weren’t trying particularly hard to ride fast. Thousands of sparkly obstacles We approached Nido’s Backyard as we rode along the Embarcadero. We noticed a lot of glass in the bike lane. This isn’t unusual, as this area is notorious for having pieces of broken glass everywhere in the bike lane and on the road. We tried to avoid the thousands of shards as well as we could. It’s difficult to do, because it’s not easy to exit the bike lane on short notice […]
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Flat tires suck
Flat tires suck. I took my child to get a flu shot the other day (not a great experience!). On the way out, we had to hop a curb because there were no curb cutouts nearby. My child went off the curb and then said “Daddy, there’s a problem.” I looked back, and indeed, the rear wheel was completely flat. That’s some insult-to-injury type stuff right there. It was kind of funny though. Luckily, I usually carry a tool kit with a patch kit and a pump with me, so I was able to fix it pretty quickly. On flats in general I don’t know if it’s just Oakland and Berkeley streets, but two friends have gotten flat tires recently on their cargo e-bikes. I saw one of them on the sidewalk on the way to school pickup. He was […]
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