
Today I broke out the tyre irons and gave Rosie her second Apocalypse Tube.
The Apocolypse Tube is the name I give for the awesomeness of these things combined:

The tyre sealant is this magical goo that you squirt into your tube, and when your tube gets a little puncture (as in 1/4 inch or less) it dries on air contact, and seals up the puncture. Amazing. Add this to a thorn resistant tube, and suddenly you have a tyre that's going to resist just about anything short of an apocalyptic event. Oh yeah.

Also, I got to buy and try a groovy new tool - this is a valve core remover (with the valve core still stuck into it). I love cool bike repair tools! It makes me feel all hard core 'n' shit.
So, with dirty hands and fresh tubes in Rosie's tyres, we wheeled out the back for a thorough wash down and lubing of the chain.
The other thing today was that I finally admitted defeat. After spending over $150 on two sets of dress guards, not being able to install them, countless emails between the seller and I over how to install them, and supply of different clips, sending back the old ones that didn't work, blah, blah, blah, I tried to install the new clips today and failed miserably.
The product itself is fine. The guards are beautifully designed and made, and the whole product is perfect. But Rosie's fenders sit too close to her tyres to get the clips in without scraping the tyre, and the derailler grabs the guard on that side when ever I go over a bump in the road, and has repeated ripped the guard off and gotten it hopelessly tangled in the derailler area, which is distressing and frustrating. (I did however have a terribly attractive man stop to help me sort it out once , which was quite fun, so it hasn't been all bad. LOL.)
So I've stashed the clips and guards away, for another day. I'm thinking of switching from Rosie to a Dutch bike for transport purposes, and I think the skirt guards will be perfect for that: wider fenders, no derailler. One day. :)
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