Avoiding Some Heat, Update On Soft Tire, Out & Back to Tavola
With no live bike racing I decided to start today’s bike ride a little earlier than yesterday’s ride. I rolled out of the driveway at 9:29 AM on my Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike to bike my “New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch” route. When I finished at 12:14 PM that marked the 8th time using this route in 2021 (5 on my Canyon and 3 on my Lynskey).
Today’s bike ride covered 35.37 miles increasing my week’s total to 69.01 miles and June to 485.67 miles. The Canyon has registered 22,546 miles since I bought it in 2018. YTD miles in 2021 compared to 2020 trails last year by 139 miles, a slight increase from yesterday.
Heat continues to dominate the weather scene which is one reason I started early. Weather for today’s bike ride: start 88 (69% humidity, 76.4 dew point), a few clouds, wind N 4 mph; finish 91 (59% humidity, 74.5 dew point), partly cloudy, wind N 5 mph. The humidity dropped helping to offset the lack of wind movement.
Yesterday I wrote about my other bike, the Lynskey R300, having a soft rear tire before the ride, pumping up the tire before the ride and finishing the ride with no problems. After the ride I looked at the rear tire and found this wire sticking in the tire. I don’t remember seeing it before the ride.
When I removed the tube the wire penetrated another patch. I tried removing the old patch but it was glued firmly and wouldn’t peel off. Not wanting to put a patch on a patch I put a new tube in. Checking today the rear tire is firm.