Right about now I’m feeling discouraged. I had a good ride and saw some amazing scenery between Newport and Florence, and the new wheel held up great. It seemed that the slow leak in the tube was still quite slow, and I was having no trouble keeping air in it. I didn’t get a new tube in Newport, since they didn’t have any good touring tires in my size. It turns out that may have been a mistake.
Less than 8 hour after forking out $100 for that new wheel, I cracked the rim. I was about three miles from camp, and I stopped at the store for some milk, produce, and a bottle of beer, and when I came out I failed to notice that the slow leak had released all of the air from my tire. I’m talking about 10 or 20 psi left. My brain was fried from a long day, so it took me a full hundred feet to notice the lack of air. As it turns out, it was long enough to bottom out the tire on a small low speed bump and crack the rim all the way through.
There are highs and lows on this trip, and that was a fast transition. Hopefully I’ll feel more optimistic in the morning.
More pictures tomorrow- very poor coverage here in camp.
I don’t know, I wouldn’t worry about such things. Yeah, the money thing is bad, heck that would be another week on the road.
I take it you are at Honeyman, it’s huge!
I don’t know what your plans are, if you want to fix it, you either wait in Florence till Monday or I can get you a ride to Coos Bay and Mo’s is open Tuesday.
I wouldn’t push the rim too far myself but if you have gaffers tape, apparently that works for a bit!