To encourage cycling we need not just safer roads but less broken glass so less punctures.
I got a puncture on the way home from kayaking today. That spot has had a lot of broken glass for a couple of weeks and I have been getting off and pushing the bike so less weight and hopefully less likely to get glass stuck in the tyre. Today I was planning to go another way to avoid this bit of cycle path but it was very windy and I wanted to be off the towpath as soon as possible. Didn't fancy being blown into the Navigation!
The glass had been cleared so I was cycling over the area, seeing the odd bit of glass, so hoped for the best (as I do on similar stretches the other side of the road on the way to kayaking). To the crossroads, across the junction, along a little way, then thump,thump thump from the back wheel.
My third bike as an adult and yet again it's the back wheel that gets the puncture. I am about to have supper then will grit my teeth and change the inner tube. Grrrh!
First of the early daffs in the garden in flower in the garden today.
Not glass but a huge drawing pin! And the nuts were so tight I couldn't undo them to get the wheel out. Luckily Bike Shack, the local bike shop now opens on Sunday , so wheeled it round there for the experts to do it.
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