I photo my thumb accidentally took while idly fiddling with my phone and watching the news and waiting for The Next Thing of the Day.
Two points if you can figure that out. I know what it is, but I’ll be impressed if anyone here can take two points off of my hands.
The Next Thing of the Day proved easy and uneventful. Started on time, ended on time, everything in the middle was assuredly a smash hit. A Tuesday to be remembered! If you could make the normal Tuesday stand out somehow or another.
Two points if you can figure that out, too.
In my idle chatter I mentioned I had a tube going on my bike. I took it off and found just the tiniest little hole seeping air. I was tempted to slap some super glue on it and experiment, but, in another sign of my own maturity and wisdom, decided this was not a profitable experiment.
You can wrap a tube in a dollar bill to finish a ride in a pinch. (Two points if you get it right on the first try!) But I was already at the house, and not in that pinch. If you’re lucky, though, the currency can hold up for weeks. I can also buy another inner tube and just be done with it. We have a small stack for just such an occasion. I went to the room where we keep stacks of things and found that we have one spare inner tube.
This does not a stack make.
Opened the little box, pulled out the tube, prepared it for installation and …
So I had to put my spare on my back wheel. The spare is the one you carry with you, not the one from the room where we keep stacks of things. That means I don’t have a spare to carry on the bike. So tomorrow’s ride will feature a new back tire, and one with a tiny pinhole on the wall. I should throw a dollar bill in there, too. Juuuust in case.
I always carry a few bucks on the bike. (Two points to me for being prepared.) You never know when a ride goes farther, or takes longer, and you want to stop at a store for water or extra fuel. And, also, for emergency tire patching.
One last point. They’re in the Alps in the Tour.
If you don’t watch World Tour races … you’re missing out. pic.twitter.com/5nuqEv0hhF
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) July 11, 2022
Click through that mini-thread and you get four little photos that the world feed used as cutaway shots.
The Alps get more intriguing all of the time.
