Sunday Cross Bike Ride

7 of us went for a cross bike ride last Sunday and it went like this: Nice warm up and then over to the tracks. KABLING! (the sound of a bad bunny hop over the rail), phsst, phsst, phsst. Flat number one. Back on the bikes we continue up tracks picking up the pace as we go. We're now flying when BANG, phsst, phsst, phsst. Flat number two. Back at it and we make 100 feet when KABOOM!, phssssssst! Flat number three. Riding once again we make it to the summer bridge, up a few run ups, up the fire road to the top of hill, do the long single track decent and finally back to the summer bridge and then back to the rail grade for the ride back to the U. KABLEWIE! Phsst, phsst, phsst. Flat tire number four. With all of the flats this ride is starting to take longer than some people’s hall passes will allow and they started bailing out. The fours of us left hit the little single track into the Pogonip and just as we exited flat number five hits. After fixing the last flat the rest of us threw in the towel, went back to Hwy 9 and rode home.
Two things were quite apparent after this ride: frame pumps absolutely rock and carry heaps of spare tubes until everybody remembers how to ride their cross bike again!