After years of never having a flat it finally hit me yesterday. I've run gatorskins on my bike through all that time and I must have been lulled into that false sense of security.
Jumped on my second bike in the morning as I felt like something a little different and only just finished putting it back together. New GP5k tires and was having a lovely ride. Hit some roughed up bitumen and I immediately knew it was a pinch flat.
2.5km walk, barefoot in the Sydney heatwave to the nearest train station was my lesson. Along with walking through Wynyard station i lycra with a bike over my shoulder for extra self conscious points. Picked up some new tubes (to have a spare in the bag on the way home) and a pump in the city to fix a lunchtime for the ride home.
So let my lesson be yours as well. Pack those spares and pump for your commute, or just use gatorskins and forget about it 🙂
by Far-Abbreviations606
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And also shoes.
Were you… biking barefoot?
Never carried any of that back when I was running tubes when my commute was 20km one-way 🤷♂️