Bicycling Lessons
on Mar.07, 2009, under Outdoors
A few things I learned today. None of this is surprising, but there’s nothing like first-hand experience.
- When on a bike ride, and considering a path that involves walking the bike on a thorny trail, over a fallen tree over a stream, and up a 15ft steep bank with guard-rail at the top, do not ignore your suspicion that the thorns will be bad for your tires.
- Riding a bike with a flat tire is not sustainable, and will quickly cause the tire to come off the rim.
- Pushing a bike with a tire that is not on the rim will eventually lead to the inner tube coming out, which will get stuck in things and make the bike non-pushable.
- Despite Chris Barner’s insistence, generally, you can’t union two bikes together into a tandem bike.
- Biking with a chest cold is tiring.
