It was a beautiful day with temperatures in the 80s. We fed the horses and I fitted my GPS to the handlebars of the birthday gift Schwinn. Hopefully, this device will reduce the experiences of going around in circles as in this area there are few straight roads. On one foray across Rt one down Young’s road things didn’t feel quite right. A quick inspection revealed a back tire that was flat on one side, the side next to the pavement. As this is a mountain bike I often ride on the side of the road in the grass. Unfortunately, this area is often littered with broken glass, a piece of which impacted my rear tire. The bike was walked back to the condo and the instruction manual consulted. In the “changing the tire” section, the manual instructed one to remove the wheel but gave not hit as to how this can be done successfully. The rear wheel has many attachments including breaks, gears and chain derailing mechanisms. After much searching a wheel removal section was discovered in the middle of something else and the extraction successfully accomplished. However, the tool kit for the bike was not robust enough to loosen the axel bolts so another trip to WalMart was required to purchase a 15 mm open-end wrench. You can’t buy just one. I now own a number of wrenches that I don’t need. The 15mm wrench worked and the wheel was extracted from the frame. Next the inner tube was pulled out with some other specialty tools and a new inner tube containing green goo to eliminate unexpected flatness was inserted. It all went smoothly. My wife’s 12 volt air pump did an excellent job of providing 55 lbs of inflation and off I went.
In the evening we enjoyed an excellent dinner at the condo next door talking about golf, horses and the meaning of life.
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