lelak (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lelak) wrote,@ 2007-04-16 22:19:00 |
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| Entry tags: | bicycle, commute, recumbent bike |
Tiresome
Clunk. Click click. Hisssssssss.
It's not a sound you ever want to hear coming from your rear wheel. I felt it as much as heard it this morning, about 2kms into my morning commute, and brought the recumbent to a stop.
At first I thought it was my waterbottle again, repeating the grand escape it had made yesterday afternoon - only choosing this time to hit the wheel of my bike instead of rolling under a passing car. The hiss of escaping air quickly put paid to that idea.
A quick inspection revealed a piece of metal, a length of wire about the thickness of a carpentry nail, curved rather like a fishhook. It had driven itself into the tyre, gouged a crescent-shaped slice in the kevlar, punched a good sized hole through the inner tube.
I walked home.
