This week has been that classic Scottish East coast onshore easterly breeze that is a damp cold climate, with not much to see with the sea Haar.
After all the amazing blue sky days we have had this last few months it is pretty grim to be out in working today, So what better way to get through the day without suffering from SAD is to get a bit of FAT and a Pugsley commute into work today, with a planned play on the ride home via the woods :)
Despite it soon the Equinox and daylight by 6am it was very over cast this morning as i rode off road most of the way to work...
Things looked a bit brighter through yellow lenses...
Into work and fun as always on the Pugsley :)...
And the day never changed remaining overcast and bleak...
We could just see and better hear the tumbling surf down at the coast as another swell rolled in from out in the North Sea, i had not planned to head to the coast after work but around the local woods and maybe get some pics to post up of riding roots and stuff in a mist shrouded wood....
But that was not to happen as leaving work and a 1/4 mile down some Hawthorn hedged field end rigs my front wheel punctured and would not seal up...Yep! again i had a terminal flatted tyre despite having just re juiced the tubes last week!
WTF!, that's £7 of Joe's juice that just kept pissing out :( back to the work shed for a tube swap and i only found 2 thorns!,
You don`t want to know how many flats i have had and sealant juice (Stan's and then Joe's) i have bought this winter!
Getting expensive all these tube repairs!, maybe i will go Getto tubeless at the end of the month when i get paid, though i just discovered tonight a broken spring on the car-more money!, it never ends, or so it seems this now!,
Be back cycling to work on narrower tyres tomorrow, they are maybe harder work on soft field end rigs, but are a lot less Hawthorn puncture susceptible!...
And thinking of giving up riding fat tyres except on the coast in the future, really!, just use the car to transport them. Stick with 29 x 50mm Rabbit hole wheels with regular 29er and 29+ tyres for these thorn infested country hedgerow field end rigs and green lanes... this is a big change in my bike choice but i really have had enough of these reoccurring punctures...
More soon...
That's one of the things that has sort of held me back from getting a fat bike (also $$). I've been a bit concerned about the puncture susceptibility of those fat tyres. Looks like sand and snow would be the best surface for them.
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