bionx snow winter flat

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bionx in deep snow

The NW got some huge snow last month. During a mad dash to the video store in I stuck my car on hill due to having to stop at the stop sign . 10 years in Alaska tells me to back it up and park it . I do, and hump it on foot determined to get the choicest vids before the snow storm hits. In the morning I go to check on the car. Totally buried under a good foot of snow 8) . Put a call to my insurance for a tow, due to the high snows
...They Are Not Towing ! At this point i resign to foot and Bionx-Bike power.
I recall DAVEW's townie in the dead of winter... I am inspired . Do some research on snow/ice tires
but no one in my area has them on hand. I decide to just air the tires down and lower the seat so I can use my feet like rudders . I put some old sheet metal screws into my shoe soles like spikes and call it good. Completely forget my car in the snow for days and days. All grocery ,video trips and wine runs are done on the Bionx bike and it works like magic :D . Folks just stare like 'how the hell..?' as it plows along. The Next week i finally get the gall to pull my car from the remaining snow and mud. Upon doing so I hear a hissing coming from the front passenger side. Jump out, sure enough I have just punctured the tire. Its amazing how quickly you can get a car unstuck when you Really have a time limit :O . Long story-short, I'm dead set on not buying a new tire or using the spare as I want to sell the car asap so I get a can of fix-flat and fill up at Jiffy-lube .It slows the leak by about 80%. I will get a used tire on Monday.
Sunday evening I decide to bike to an aquarium shop 4 miles away. I do. Its closed when I get there. *grrr* Sundays! Figure Borders books is open, It is , get the free read in for a couple hours. I suit up, get on the bike to head home. I'm guessing the Tire Gods waited till the end of the year to pile on the love because upon leaving the Borders curb I catch a rear Flat ! And since its SUNDAY, no Bus for over an hour! I just start humpin the 3.5 miles as I don't have a tube. About 1/2 way home I get a lazy idea .I get on the bike. I put my crotch right on the neck ,leaning my weight forward off the back tire as much as possible . I hit the throttle and hope not to endo over the bars or hit a bump . The battery is toast but this trick gets me the rest of the way home in record time with no rear rim damage or Jewel damage :) .SANY0123.jpg

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