Ain't that the best.
Sidewall blow out.
On the way in.
Fortunately a fellow bike commuter was right there and when i discovered that i failed to transfer the tubes back into the commuter bag from the race bag... he handed me a patch kit.
Which got me to Day Care.
But not back to the lab.
Rode the fuckin tire flat the three miles back. Stood up. As much of my weight as i could put on the bars. And i made it up. I had two tubes in the lab. One was blown at the valve stem (junk - shit) the second was a long stem tube that i must have used as an emergency then swapped out. That or it has a slow leak and i'm gonna be pissed.
Fortunately again i had my pair of Specialized Tricross II 28c tires at work. Wire bead but intack. Unlike my now destroyed conti. And no. The brake pads are not rubbing on the sidewall. I pumped the sumbitch up this morning - it had gotten a bit low - 80 psi or so over the last week. So i put 105 or so in this am and made it all the way to the base of Washington bridge before it went KABOOOOOOMsssssss lump lump lump lump lump...
Dirty and a bit late i made the day care drop.
But that put me well behind for this morning.
cause i had to get down to the other facility. couldn't just stay at the office up on the hill... and the hub is closed... and i don't have time to ride all the way out to Prov Bike... fingers crossed i can get home to my tubes and see if i have a spare tire kicking around that can get me by (pretty sure i've got something, if nothing else i do have a 20c tire i can slap on the front and put the 25 on the rear.
Cross race sneak peak.
The USAC official was horrible. He pulled woman who were in no danger of getting lapped who thought they had one lap left. Then he did it to all but the top 25 riders in the Go Daddy Go field (masters combined). We weren't that far behind. We were in NO fuicking danger of getting lapped... the time by we were given a 2 to go card and so i'm all one more lap nail it - there are two or three guys i KNOW i could have passed in the techincal sections and moved up... MORON.... first he chews us out at the start line for warming up on the course. There were NOT very many woman out there. ANd the guys (me included) warming up were in NO way impeding their progress... ANyway - the course was awesome. benidorm guys did a great job. I hope that official gets some time to read the rule book on running a cyclocross race that or gets relegated to doing something that has no impact on the race. just cause i ain't in the top few places... fucker never said anything about discretionary pulling... total clusterfuck....
okay - more on the race later...
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Only wankers and juniors warm up on the course. Even if you weren't "impeding" the racer deserve the course to themselves and should be able to look ahead and find the next person they are racing against without trying to figure out if it is a racer or some self-centered master. Shame on you.
yeah yeah yeah...
it wasn't like anyone was riding the whole course...
and it was the Open Men's field too...
yeah... bad idea though... makes for a good warm up tho...
shame on me or shame on the organizers for not having a warm up time... i dunno...
i got no problem with people warming up on the course if the field is really small and there are 3 or 4 hundred meters between riders on parts of the course where you can't see anyone behind at all...
shame on me if ya like... the official was still a dick for cutting the race short
Do you still get lapped points for getting pulled? CT officials have always been a different breed.
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