This Space for Rent

I found another nail!

I found a nail! (#2)

This one was in the rear tire of the born-again Trek – I found it this afternoon when I was going over the machine adjusting it in hopes out going out at 0dark30 tomorrow morning for a quick 100k. I’m not sure just when it got stuck into the tire – Highway 30 (Cuthbert Binns to Sauvie Island) is pretty littered with tire-eating debris, but Marine Drive (Nicolas Flamel, Hills to the Yeah!) is a traditional winter place for me to grind to a stop with debris porcupining one tire or another – but it was sitting there happily holding up under pressure until I plucked it out and let all the air escape while sitting at home with my bottles of tire goo & floor pumps.

I tubeless tires; I wasn’t going for speed records on my 100k yesterday (I had to combine it with some shopping) but it was chilly enough that I would have been unhappy if I’d had to stop and change a flat.