The prez is coming to town today, but he hasn’t texted me, so I don’t suppose he wants to hang out, maybe go for a bike ride, drop a hint or two about the cell he’s having prepared for The Defendant on Gitmo.
His motorcade is likely to play hell with the already-chaotic Duck! City traffic, which resembles nothing so much as a fire-ant colony remodeled by M-80.
Maybe his SS detail can thin this perpetually stampeding herd of road-ragers during the presidential visit. They could probably use the target practice, and for sure we could use fewer hotheads with lead feet.
Mad Blog Media 
A half moon short, heh?
I hear Gitmo is nice this time of year. But, I hope Uncle Joe is trying to shut it down not add to the population. But, it would be a fitting final home for his Orange Tubbieness.
Mebbe the Source doesn’t want José to visit. We just got an inch and a half of rain and a flash-flood warning in about 20 minutes flat.
Wow, the strange shit continues. We love the rain, but that’s too much.
I needed to come down to find some Euro-style cabinet hinges to replace two broken ones, but no way I am going to brave the chaos that Sleepy Joe will bring with him. Duck! City traffic is bad on a good day.
Our turn for the rain now.
I haven’t seen this much water in the road in a couple years. Finally some rain.
Sheesh. I hope they got some of that up by the Black Feather and American Mesa fires.
Drove Meena up to LA to see her acupuncturist today. Looked like they were gonna get some serious rain, too. Hope they did up in the Jemez.
Hah. I’m pretty sure Air Force One flew right over El Rancho Pendejo en route to Kirtland. Saw it from the rear, and didn’t have my glasses on, but the aircraft seemed the right size and configuration and bound for KAFB. Couple minutes later the media announce Sleepy’s on the tarmac.
Dude didn’t wave or honk or nothin’.
Not even a moon?
Maybe two tightly nested crescent moons.
Re:Joe the Biden. Isn’t it about time the Rethugs cranked up Big Lies machines? Ya just know there are gonna be some whoppers over the next year since they know full well how their Freedom! Dimwits will latch on, as well as the media. Stuff like “Biden falls down mine shaft while putting his Ray Bans on” or “Biden crashes Corvette into school children while texting Fanduel bets on cellphone.”
Aw hell, wish I hadn’t sent those fake newslines as they’ll probably end up the lead on Fox Mews. Fact is, I’m totally happy with the fact that so few in Joe’s administration have been either charged with crimes or found guilty of any.The former guy who was throwing temper tantrums in the Oval Office? Seems like everyone attached to him is a grifter or criminal.
Enuf…as for bicycles I had my first flat in 10 years yesterday. Tiny pinhole and for the life of me I could not find what caused it. I have the haunted feeling it’s laying in wait hidden in the tire to strike again even though I inspected it like a TSA agent with their boss standing next to them
Maybe it was a little pice of wire from a blown truck tire? I can remember running my finger around the inside of a tire and getting stuck by the damn things. Kinda like a high E string on a guitar. Thing will go through anything, even a Schwalbe Marathon Plus.
I did a bike tour across a portion of the west a few years (too many years) back, and the only flats I received were those from little pieces of wire from worn vehicle tires. That was pre-Marathon and I was running Continental’s Travel Contact tires designed for long touring. Those little wires can sure wiggle upstream.
Regarding your flat Herb, I think one hint as to why you got a flat is “10 years”. Even though your tubes are probably ok, I believe I’d be expecting a flat or two again soon.
Regarding TSA inspections, I’d agree that they can be pretty thorough. I recall getting pulled to the side and receiving the pat down inspection from an agent once. If he had been a she I would have done a lot more to ask her out for a drink later.
After I got nipped like that a couple times by stubs of wire, shards of glass, and other pointy bits I took to running a doubled-over old rag around the inside of a tire post-flat. Let the cloth take the beating on the first go, sez I.
The wire-bead Schwalbe Little Big Bens are pretty tough if you like a 38mm tire, and inexpensive, too. Between them and goo-filled inner tubes I mostly travel unimpeded.
The Soma Shikoros are great, too.
I have sliced a finger before running it along the inside casing so’s I did do the old rag method. After finding nada, I got whipped into a fretful state and spent 30 minutes examining the outside casing inch by inch for the villain but again….nada. The tubes and tires are two years old and live inside on their off-days so no dry rot. Made it through today’s ride so maybe I’m good but I remember the old bike shop days and mystery flats that bedeviled we mechanics. I also remember my first run in with goatheads in Colorado. And therefore my first nightmare with Slime. I don’t want to talk about it……
Puncture in the back tire
Sealant all over my shoes
Puncture in the back tire
Sealant all over my shoes
Pedaling down the road
I got the nasty tubeless tire blues
Well I popped me that front tire
Slime all up in my chops
Yeah I popped me that front tire
Slime all up in my chops
Get a fresh shot as that wheel spin
Got to get home ’fore it stops.
Have you ever tried the thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) inner tubes, Herb old scout? I got a pair of those with my Soma Saga (disc) back in 2015, and I just this year tossed the second of the two. I forgot when I ruined the first, but the second lasted eight years without issue. Not bad; not bad at all.
I can’t remember who manufactured them, dammit. I thought it would be in my notes for the Adventure Cyclist review I wrote up, but nix. Might’ve been Tubolito. Gosh darn the fake news anyway.
Mr Tuffy?
I just did a Google search and a whole bunch of links came up, including Vittoria.
https://www.vittoria.com/us/en/technology/inner-tubes/ultra-light-speed
TPU tube review.
https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/specials/tpu-inner-tubes
Aha. Thanks for passing along that review, K. The TPUs I had in the Soma Saga’s tires were the Foss, and their durability was astounding. It took eight years of cycling through Goathead Central to kill two tubes.
Of course, I don’t ride that Saga every day. But still.
Biden’s SS detail. You don’t say….