So there I’m, Simply Driving Alongside on the Ol’ Croton Aqueduct, after I come across this open hatch:
The aqueduct was accomplished in like 1842, and it hasn’t been used since just like the Sixties, so the one cheap clarification for one among these hatches being open is that some demon or disgruntled undead upkeep employee or different malevolent pressure has escaped from it:
Eerily that is additionally mere yards from the Son Of Sam Satanic Ritual Spot:
Which is hidden behind iron bars:
Although simply accessed by way of an iron gate adorned with an Informative QR Code From Hell:
This infernal public backyard is a pleasant place for a household picnic.
Or to WORSHIP SATAN.
However principally for picnics.
On this explicit event I used to be using the Roaduno, which is again in singlespeed mode for the foreseeable future:
I take pleasure in utilizing each clipless and flat pedals (not on the similar time in fact, although anyone someplace might be using round with a flat pedal on one aspect and a clipless pedal on the opposite), however when it’s this scorching flat pedals are the clear winner, as a result of they mean you can journey in sandals, which is without doubt one of the greatest methods there’s to remain cool on the bike–or not less than much less scorching.
I did need to restore a flat earlier than heading out, because the rear tire appeared to have a sluggish leak. I typically attempt to restore a tube earlier than changing it with a brand new one, although if I inflate a tube with a sluggish leak and may’t discover mentioned leak instantly then I throw it away as a result of few issues are extra infuriating than mysteriously leaking tubes. (That is the place you inform me to go tubeless, and I let you know to close up.) Particularly irritating is when a mysteriously leaking tube will get combined in along with your assortment of used-but-perfectly-good tubes and you’ll’t inform the distinction till you utilize it after which the following time you wish to go for a journey the tire is flat. Talking of which, in checking my varied spare tubes for leaks, I inflated one among them and located this:
I’ve by no means encountered this form of defect earlier than, and it appears to be like like a snake that’s digesting an egg:
I don’t know if its integrity is compromised or not, however I’ve put in it on one other bike and we’ll see what occurs.
As at all times I used to be shocked at simply how briskly the Roaduno felt, and I’ve determined to attribute it to the Energy of Biopace:
Sorry, I centered on the unsuitable spot:
It’s a brand new cellphone and I’m nonetheless figuring it out.
Aside from the open Portal to Hell, the one different situation I encountered on the journey was a creaking sound:
You understand how when your bike is creaking and one of many first belongings you test is the chainring bolts as a result of that’s very easy, despite the fact that it’s by no means, ever the chainring bolts? Properly, this time it was the chainring bolts, which had been shockingly unfastened–wish to the purpose I’m shocked the chainring didn’t fall off. I’m undecided how this occurred, however possibly I forgot to tighten them within the first place. This appears unlikely for the reason that bike solely began creaking just lately, but it additionally sounds precisely just like the form of factor I’d do, so who is aware of? So it’s both that or a demon loosened them within the evening.
Then after I received dwelling all sweaty and disgusting and prepared for a bathe I found I had no working water due to a water essential break. So my son and I received within the automotive and picked up eight gallons of bottled water, and by the point we received dwelling the water was again on once more. So between the damaged water essential and the open Portal to Hell alongside the outdated timey aqueduct, it appears fairly apparent to me that there are evil creatures lurking within the pipes.
Simply one thing to bear in mind.
