Today's Very Short APRS - GPS Tracking
About 4:30 this afternoon Jacque and I decided we needed to at least make a mail run on the trike.
I noticed the left front tire was a tad bit soft when we left, but we had only gone a mile or so when Jacque noticed it was almost FLAT. I dug out our CO2 inflator and a cartridge and FOOSHED the tire back up good and hard, but we decided to forget the ride and turn around and make a run for home in hopes of getting there before the tire went flat again. It's a good thing we did.
This makes for flats on all 3 tires on the trike within a month's time. Very frustrating. The tires are very thin as are the tubes. We now have a couple thorn resistant and a couple more "green slime" tubes on their way to rescue our situation via Amazon .
By the time we got to the base of our gravel & dirt & rocky mile of goal path leading to our house, the tire was flat again. I used the rest of the CO2 cartridge to reinflate it but it went flat, again, within a hundred yards or so.
Dragging it back up the hill was tedious and tiresome... riding this rig is SO much easier than pushing or dragging it. With the left front tire flat, it was very difficult to drag, steer, etc. Finally made it home; will patch the tube tomorrow. Since tubes are so cheap ($7 or so including mail order shipping) we seldom patch them any more, but we are out of tubes until the UPS guy shows up at our delivery point in Tijeras.
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 3.37
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
2.8 MPH 4.6 MPH 24.7 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 12 mins 44 mins 42 secs 27 minutes 20 seconds
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