Well, first off I have to say that I'm very pleased with the quality of my tires and tubes. We splurged and got the "thorn resistant" models from the store. And they have resisted thorns, and rocks, and broken glass, they just didn't hold up to construction staples.
I was biking to Dave's office so that we could then bike back home together and met up with the staple in the very annoying construction of JUST THE BIKE LANE on Warner Road. I'm still not sure why road workers have torn up just the bike lane, but that's how it is and that is how my very first tube met its' demise.
It took a little upper body strength to wiggle the all powerful, thorn resistant tube and tire off the rim of my bike. I actually called Dave up and he biked over to coach me and give me a little extra man power. We managed to put the spare tube on, cover it up with the trusty old tire, and fill everything full with a CO2 cartridge.
And who knew that CO2 would leak out of a tire so fast? I thought I'd gotten another flat when I went to ride my bike again a few days after the initial flat, but the sales lady at our local cyclery told me that CO2 particles are small and that they leak out of tubes quickly. Good thing, because while it was probably good for me to practice changing a flat, I'm totally cool with waiting a while before I have to do it again.
