I didn’t realise it was Friday 13th.
I left for work attired for light drizzle, as forecast. Just after it began to chuck it down I punctured. Rear wheel, of course. Finding no sharp bits inside my tyre I started to replace the holey tube with a (hopefully) leak-free one, but two dogs ran up to me, one barking at me and one pissing on my bag. Ace. Once I’d cleared the dogs out and finished fixing the wheel, soaked through, I started to continue towards work but naturally that tube went down too.
I rode the flat tyre back home to my garage, found a couple of tubes that needed fixing (no boxed ones left) and got the puncture repair kit out. I stuck the third tube of the day into the tyre and pumped it up to a gentle 85psi, and had a look for nicks and cuts in the tyre itself. Just as I found a weakness in the sidewall and a bubble of inner tube pushing out it exploded, deafening me and making my ears ring. Ow!
Definately time for a cup of tea and a change of clothes. I drove to work today.
