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01-21-2005, 10:23 AM

In article <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>,
dgk <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> writes:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:18:59 -0800, Zoot Katz <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
> wrote:
>
>>Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:12:28 GMT,
>><[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>, dgk
>><[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
>>
>>>Tomorrow I go apologize to the LBS. At least I didn't make much of a
>>>scene about them messing up my flat(s), which is good, because they
>>>appear to be innocent of incompetence.
>>
>>You might recommend to them Andrew Muzi's practice of having the
>>Yellow Jersey's wrenches cello-tape offending foreign objects to the
>>repair tag.
>>
>>That way the client knows the flat was properly repaired.
>
> I'm sure they find one object. The question is do they search for
> more. I found two.

Bike shops themselves might be the sources of some of the
most hard-to-find, pernicious tube puncturers -- short,
almost invisible, little strands of inner cable that
somehow migrate from the shop floor to the interiors of
your tires. Using a flashlight to lluminate tire
insides from various angles sometimes helps for finding
the little buggers, along with the usual tactile methods.

cheers,
Tom

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01-21-2005, 10:23 AM

In article <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>,
dgk <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> writes:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:18:59 -0800, Zoot Katz <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
> wrote:
>
>>Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:12:28 GMT,
>><[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>, dgk
>><[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
>>
>>>Tomorrow I go apologize to the LBS. At least I didn't make much of a
>>>scene about them messing up my flat(s), which is good, because they
>>>appear to be innocent of incompetence.
>>
>>You might recommend to them Andrew Muzi's practice of having the
>>Yellow Jersey's wrenches cello-tape offending foreign objects to the
>>repair tag.
>>
>>That way the client knows the flat was properly repaired.
>
> I'm sure they find one object. The question is do they search for
> more. I found two.

Bike shops themselves might be the sources of some of the
most hard-to-find, pernicious tube puncturers -- short,
almost invisible, little strands of inner cable that
somehow migrate from the shop floor to the interiors of
your tires. Using a flashlight to lluminate tire
insides from various angles sometimes helps for finding
the little buggers, along with the usual tactile methods.

cheers,
Tom

--
-- Nothing is safe from me.
Above address is just a spam midden.
I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca

01-21-2005, 10:23 AM

In article <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>,
dgk <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> writes:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:18:59 -0800, Zoot Katz <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
> wrote:
>
>>Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:12:28 GMT,
>><[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>, dgk
>><[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
>>
>>>Tomorrow I go apologize to the LBS. At least I didn't make much of a
>>>scene about them messing up my flat(s), which is good, because they
>>>appear to be innocent of incompetence.
>>
>>You might recommend to them Andrew Muzi's practice of having the
>>Yellow Jersey's wrenches cello-tape offending foreign objects to the
>>repair tag.
>>
>>That way the client knows the flat was properly repaired.
>
> I'm sure they find one object. The question is do they search for
> more. I found two.

Bike shops themselves might be the sources of some of the
most hard-to-find, pernicious tube puncturers -- short,
almost invisible, little strands of inner cable that
somehow migrate from the shop floor to the interiors of
your tires. Using a flashlight to lluminate tire
insides from various angles sometimes helps for finding
the little buggers, along with the usual tactile methods.

cheers,
Tom

--
-- Nothing is safe from me.
Above address is just a spam midden.
I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca

01-22-2005, 02:16 AM

How does one "seed" broken glass onto a road surface?

Kenny

01-22-2005, 02:16 AM

How does one "seed" broken glass onto a road surface?

Kenny

01-22-2005, 02:16 AM

How does one "seed" broken glass onto a road surface?

Kenny

01-22-2005, 03:12 AM

Like I said..... PARANOID

01-22-2005, 03:12 AM

Like I said..... PARANOID

01-22-2005, 03:12 AM

Like I said..... PARANOID

01-22-2005, 08:22 PM

On 22 Jan 2005 03:12:18 -0800, "marco007esq"
<[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:

>Like I said..... PARANOID

Seed was perhaps a bad word. I think they just spread broken glass.

The bridge pathway is sort of narrow, really just one tight car lane.
So sometimes pedestrians, skaters, and bikers get annoyed with each
other. Not often but I have seen a few heated "discussions" about
right of way. It wouldn't be the first time that I've ridden on a bike
path that seemed to be a magnet for glass.

On the other hand, perhaps someone just dropped a beer bottle. But
that sort of thing happens more during warm weather.