[OrRando] Screech Owl...

David Rowe david.readytoride at gmail.com
Sun Apr 16 14:49:58 PDT 2006


Susan,

I was just unpacking and found my receipt from the Mt Angel Market ... do
you need that?  So sorry!

dr

On 4/16/06, Susan France <susanfrance at teleport.com> wrote:
>
> So I've been playing with my pump all morning... one would think I would
> just toss it out and buy something else... but once a piece of equipment
> has
> failed and you take it apart, get it all figured out, put it back
> together... ya just cannot toss it. My pump is missing a fairly large
> O-ring. Maybe it was never designed to have an O-ring in this particular
> place, but it needs one. It probably explains why my tires never held
> pressure when fixing flats in the rain.  But that is not it's only
> problem... last night the "rod" separated from the "piston"... I could see
> that it screwed together but for the life of me I couldn't figure out how
> to
> get the thing apart so that I could rescrew the rod to the piston... now I
> know, and it wasn't obvious. And why would it unscrew in the first place?
> Vibration... I often would find my pump handle lose from the pump and
> thought nothing of it... but slowing it was unwinding itself, until last
> night "surprise" pump handle in one hand, pump body in the other, flat
> tire,
> sweep position, and riding alone.
>
> Luckily I made the route an out and back and Bert, David & John were on
> the
> "back" portion and they come upon the lone cyclist with her pump in
> pieces.
> (Bert, David & John were preriding the route,  putting up stickers at
> controls for the rest of the group.) So, I decided I'll just get the flat
> fixed and ride back with them since I have no pump, I've lost a lot of
> time,
> I was riding alone (which I really don't like at night) and I had "the
> backup wheel". So now Bert, David & John all know about "the backup
> wheel".
> When I had the flat I just dreaded fixing it... The wheel is 16 years old
> and like new ...because the aero style makes it nearly impossible to get a
> tire on/off the rim... as the 3 of them soon learned. Bert didn't want me
> to
> mess with pulling the shard out of the Gatorskin I had, he wanted me to
> use
> his brand new spare tire. Then when he saw 3 patches on my spare tube he
> insisted I use his brand new spare tube... OK, but I do know that my
> patched
> tubes hold just fine as I've never had a patch fail. But I wasn't going to
> argue with 3 randos eager to fix "the backup wheel". Then Bert wants to
> use
> his CO2 cartridge, so we all get a detailed lesson in the finesse it takes
> to not blow the tube/tire off the rim.  I used CO2 cartridges years ago
> with
> really bad results... as in empty cartridges and flat tire, stranded in
> Scappoose...luckily a cyclist with a pump just happened by.  My
> wire-beaded
> Gatorskin was retired next to a Oak tree for me to retrieve later this
> week... (this is my stomping grounds). And Bert, David & John lost a
> minimum
> of 1/2 hr battling "the backup wheel."
>
> And we are off now with a tailwind toward the last control. How nice to
> ride
> with someone... you can see the road better with all those extra lights.
> Someone to talk to. We struggled a bit with attaching the bag of stickers
> to
> the last signpost. I hadn't given Bert enough zip ties, it was cold and
> very
> windy here, and the post was pretty much surrounded by mud... in the end
> we
> used one of my spare tubes... again, I could just retrieve it later this
> week on a trip out into the prairie.
>
> And then just a short trip back to the start...
>
> Those roads were quiet... even hwy 219 was quiet after 11pm. I could take
> the lane on a road I'm so used to riding with trucks zooming by at 60mph.
>
> I did hear an owl, a horned owl. I got pelted with hail, I did see the
> meteor...it looked blue from my vantage point.
>
> I say we do this again, hopefully on a night when the weather is warm and
> a
> full moon.
>
> Cheers,
> Susan.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com
> > [mailto:orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com]On Behalf Of joel metz
> > Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 9:37 AM
> > To: orrando at tire.patch.com
> > Subject: [OrRando] screech owl populaire report...
> >
> >
> > yeah, im up, and ive finished my report!
> >
> > i mean really, how long can a report on a 100k in the dark take to
> > write, anyhow? :) especially with no pics (i SO hate my stupid old
> > digital camera. NOTHING came out useable.)
> >
> > anyhow, its here:
> >
> > http://www.blackbirdsf.org/randonneuring/2006_100.html
> >
> > thanks susan for a great little ride, and del and nathan for the
> company!
> >
> > -joel
> >
> > --
> > joel metz  : magpie at blackbirdsf.org :  http://www.blackbirdsf.org/
> > bike messengers worldwide : ifbma : http://www.messengers.org/
> >                      portland, oregon
> > ==
> >            i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
> >                                  after she got that bicycle...
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