My office schedule varies slightly but regardless of what time I'm heading into work if I don't start my bike commute on time there will be an unscheduled train and/or I'll have a flat.
by fatDadBikeTouring
My office schedule varies slightly but regardless of what time I'm heading into work if I don't start my bike commute on time there will be an unscheduled train and/or I'll have a flat.
by fatDadBikeTouring
7 Comments
Go tubeless and there is fuck all you can do about the train apart from wait it out
Last month I was testing a new route and got stuck at a train crossing that took forever. Just as it was getting to the last car, another train came from the opposite direction and took even longer. At grade crossings are a real pain in the ass
Take out the valve core and pour some tire sealant like Stan’s no tubes in it and you should be good for 6 months to a year depending how hot it gets where you live.
There’s a train crossing near me that either takes 45 seconds or 45 minutes. No in-between.
This used to happen to me but with boats when I lived in Montreal. there was a vertical lift bridge that let through cargo ships, it was a super long process that required manual operation. The operator left the cabin, went a shut down with a lock doors at both sides of the bridge, then went back to the cabin, lifted the slowest bridge in the world and let the ships go. First in one direction, then in another.
I don’t know how many times this happened to me, and most times at rush hour. You’d think that they would do it like at low traffic time (this was also a car bridge), but noooo…
I don’t have to use that path anymore, thankfully.
Schwalbe Marathon Plus tires. 8 years zero flats.
Don’t know if you’re looking for anti-puncture advice, but I used to get a few punctures a year. I changed to Schwalbe Marathon Plus tires, and I’ve only had one puncture in two years since then. And it was from a three-inch nail. You probably can’t get those tires everywhere, and some people complain that they feel quite hard (I don’t seem to be able to notice it), but they are a big improvement to my life and I guess I’m saving money on inner tubes… yeah, I probably would have bought about five more by now.