Since I started alternating bikes to make both last longer I tried to keep necessary tools on each bike in their various bags, but often during reorganizations things get shuffled about inconveniently. I made certain that when I forwent Bike Pumps (my frame-sizes aren’t conducive to the portable pumps) I kept plenty of Air Cartridges in various bags, but alas it seems I neglected to keep Tire Levers also in various bags. Rolling on the regular Saturday route I avoided most of the glass & metal debris but most in cycling is doodoo. I noticed the slow leak about 27 miles in & figured, given the 98% humidity, a quick patch was preferable to a tube change, but I cd accomplish neither without a lever. A complete rookie mistake.
It was a good ride but along the way I noticed the same 2 roving cop cars; our Floyd George protests had become violent enough to draw out tear-gas; the cops I’m assuming we’re monitoring some of the same out-of-place looking cyclists I saw today – all in black tee-shirts, all with back-packs, all riding the wrong kinds of bikes** on the greenway. They (I passed nearly 15 of them all in a line) turned over the pedestrian bridge where I went straight to loop around Nissan Field, & then later they came back over the bridge to head back toward Shelby Park. Cops tracked them politely the whole way ( I’m assuming there were cops in cars on the other side of the bridge). So far I’ve heard nothing about any new vandalism or violence.
At any rate a good ride albeit 15 miles too short.
*Please forgive my French Pun
**BMX, Mountain-Bikes, awkward looking Hybrids – just things that stuck out as Odd (& this from the dude on the Fixie but Fixies looks just like 10 Speeds until pedaling through every turn). These bikes didn’t belong
Ecbatan 