I put everything back together and then checked the tire again. I decided to have breakfast, pack everything up, and clean up the hotel room a bit, just to give the tube time to fail before I went through the hassle of reinstalling the tire. I installed the patch and inflated the tube, waiting for the inevitable failure. This morning, I decided to patch the original tube that had lasted the first 4500 miles. If that didn’t work, the one and only bike shop in town opened at 1:00 on Thursdays. As it was close to midnight, I gave up and decided I’d try again in the morning. I eventually got the tire back on, but the second tube also did not hold air.
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In the process of wrestling the tire back on to the rim, the tire iron flew up and took a significant chunk of skin off my nose, which then proceeded to bleed profusely. When I went to inflate it, the tube didn’t even pretend to hold air. I dutifully removed the wheel, removed the tube, discovering it was definitely pinched, and installed a spare. I inflated the tire before heading off in search of dinner and when I got back to the room, the mystery was clearly solved. The leak was very slow so it was difficult to tell. When last I checked in, I was killing time in a hotel room in Silverton, dodging raindrops and wondering if I actually had a flat tire. Turns out, it just all spilled over into today. I posted early yesterday so missed out on a lot of the action.
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