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So I wore a white dress to work today.
Tempted fate.
And fate delivered.
One flat tyre later, I decided I hate hand pumps.
Except I already knew I hated hand pumps.
Which is why I had bought a CO2 canister (as we use on the road bikes) for this purpose.
Except I couldn't work out how to get the CO2 canister working.
Because I'd never done it.
I got home pretty grumpy.
I get grumpy when I think I should be able to do something and I can't.
Got home and engineer husband helped me get it working.
The trick was I needed to screw the opening further onto the Shrader valve and then push quite hard against the valve.
Now I'm good again.
I love my husband.
He makes things good again. :)
(image via holykaw.alltop.com)
P.S. On the upside, I rode home pretty slowly (17km/hr) because I was so worried about pinch flatting on my low tyre that I didn't break a sweat.
Up until now, I didn't think I was capable of doing it.
(Yes, I know I can just cycle slower, but it feels strange to me.)
It also helped that it was so late by that stage, there wasn't much traffic.
I guess the next challenge would be to cycle that slowly in the morning peak traffic.
I will now share with you an interesting article that I came across yesterday that resonated with me:
"You see, the problem is that you want to keep up with people who you can’t keep up with."
"You’ve only been doing this a short time and you’ve seen dramatic improvements that most people never see. But you make the terrible mistake of comparing yourself to people who are far above your physical ability. This causes you frustration because you want to be as good as they are, which in your mind means “as fast.” I could tell you right now that you’re much better than most cyclists I’ve ever met but because you equate good with fast, you can’t grasp my meaning or you think I’m flattering you or you think I don’t get it."Totally.
Basically, you must cycle (and probably do things in general) for your own intrinsic reasons and motivation.
But we all knew that, right? :)
