It was a beautiful day yesterday - nice and sunny, cool, with a light breeze. I had a 2-hour bike ride on my plan, so I set off for the country (from our town of 5000, that isn't very far!), I rode through the local Terry Fox Run by accident, and was headed out a country road away from home. I passed some barking dogs, some road-kill, and then, BOOM, my rear-tire just totally falls apart!! I've had a puncture before, this wasn't one of those. My tire was empty in a second or two. No chance I could keep riding with it. Being 15km from home, I called my wife, who came and picked me up. Later on, a friend called, said we could patch up my tire, and go for a ride, so off I went. We put a patch on the tube, tried to put something over the tire, and off we went. Got to the edge of town, and BOOM, tire was gone again. Oh well. I just wasn't fated to go for a ride yesterday. On the bright side, I got to make a solo-trip to the LBS, which allows a lot more latitude than when the wife comes along. I hope everyone else had better luck!

Off to change a tire!!

Brad