In my rush to get started on today’s bike ride I almost skipped going to the garage for my pre-ride tire squeeze routine. But fortunately I went anyway. the front tire squeezed great but when my fingers wrapped around the tire I noticed a softness. I moved the Canyon out into the sun light, rotated the rear tire looking for the culprit. After turning the tire about half way around I saw the problem, a piece of thin wire stuck out of the tire with a 2 or 3 inch tail. So much for a quick departure. I took the rear wheel out of the back of the Canyon, used the tire tools to remove one bead and pulled the tube out. The small made it difficult to find so I pumped up the tube, put my lips near the spot and felt the faint air escaping from the tube. I roughed up the tube, put a sheet rock screw in the hole to mark the spot, applied glue and then a patch. Satisfied the patch covered the hole I pushed the tube back in the tire, remounted the bead and pumped it up. I all the supplies away and squeezed the tire before heading back inside to get ready. The firm tire signaled the patch held and the bike ride was on.

After all of this I started the bike ride at 10:31 AM on the planned route of “New Caney – Gene Campbell Road”. I wanted ride at least 35 miles and ended up biking 36.76 miles. The week now totals 106.97 miles and 536.98 miles for September, 163 miles away from my goal of 700 miles.

The weather felt good but the blue sky held a lot more clouds than yesterday. Weather while I biked: start 87 (68% humidity, 75.2 dew point), a few clouds, wind S 10 mph. Finish 87 (64% humidity, 73.7 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SW 6 mph.

I believe this is the first I biked this route with the GoPro camera. Clips from various spots along the route. Nothing out of the ordinary along the route other than signs from the rain last week. I finished the ride at 1:24 PM.

Weather for Thursday should repeat today and I will ride.