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That is fantastic!Happy New Year!
I had a pretty nice start. My wife just suggested taking the bikes instead of walking to see the first sunrise. We're moving into the right direction.
Here a picture of today's sunrise. Yesterday it was foggy and cloudy therefore there's no sunrise to ride into. So I went on this frosty morning to see my first sunrise of the year. Temperatures went down to -5 last night. It was certainly a great scenery. The air was crisp and ground and trees were covered with frost.Happy New Year!
I had a pretty nice start. My wife just suggested taking the bikes instead of walking to see the first sunrise. We're moving into the right direction.
today was a rest day for me. took the chance to change tires on both bikes:
- gravel
rear one was almost spent after some 3,100 km, a lot of that on the rough stuff. I could probably have gotten a bit more mileage out of it, but I prefer to swap them when they're 70-80% done, rather than risk punctures etc. this one had the wear thread totally disappear on one spot, and a decent slash through the middle on another, so... put in some MTB tyres, wanting to go to the Maihama/Makuhari MTB park, only to have something come up so I can't go tomorrow (hoping to do it on Sunday instead)
- road
after about 3,400km without puncturing, I figured I don't wanna take more chances with those tyres (Conti's attack/ forza front-rear specific set) and since I had schwalbe 1's laying around I thought I should enter new year with new tyres properly. tested my little hand pump, which hasn't seen any action in years, and it's still working. timed myself: 5 minutes of easy but steady pumping - 69 psi on the 25mm tyre. not bad... another 2 minutes of pumping: 71 psi?! I guess that's about as high as I can get with that little thing without really exerting myself. I was hoping for 80 psi, but not bad. one of the new schwalbes has a slight imperfection right at the middle of it. looks like a bit of it was snagged or something when finishing? not sure, but will have to keep my eye on that one (I've had these laying around as spares for a while now, don't even remember when and where I got them, and it's probably too late to claim any initial damage).
also, tried to use the CO2 cartridge for the first time. had one which came with the pump originally (must be 3-4 years old at least), but I never used it. I was able to get it to discharge halfheartedly and it inflated the tyre (thumb estimate to about 50psi) but I somehow let that air out so don't really wanna bother with these in the future (as I haven't so far either). as a matter of fact, I've only had a puncture twice outside in all my cycling years. I put it down to proper maintenance overall and not pushing the tyres to their limit in particular
I was amazed to find that a cartridge can inflate a tubeless from zero.
yeah I saw them at work and was expecting something like that, but mine flopped. or to be fair, I don't know how to properly use it in conjunction with my hand pump. but given how rare I get punctures, and my confidence in being able to solve it with the pump alone (it may take 1-2 minutes longer), the CO2s are in my equation more trouble than they're worth