{"id":9297,"date":"2008-03-23T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/23\/flat-tire-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:51","slug":"flat-tire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/23\/flat-tire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Tire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Image_602_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Image_602_.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I decided to see if I could easily get near the Lakeside \/ shopping area via bike, with as little riding in roads as possible. This worked out well, except while riding along a small connector road which runs behind Meijer and Costco and whatnot, I got a flat. It was a sheet metal screw stuck nicely into the thin part of <a href=\"http:\/\/c0nsumer.livejournal.com\/1140007.html\">the new tires<\/a>. Uggh.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t particularly hard to change the tube, it was just a bit dirtier and colder than I would have liked. The area near there is still under construction, so there was a bit of water and mud that I had just gone through. It was also just above freezing, so the tire was really stiff and took a bit of effort to get back on to the rim. Oh, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackburndesign.com\/mountain_pumps.html#shorty\">Blackburn Shorty<\/a> pump took quite a while to get to get the tires actually full enough to ride on.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well. At least it got sorted out. If you are interested, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=http:%2F%2Fnuxx.net%2Ffiles%2Fgps%2F22-Mar-08_shelby_township.kmz&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;t=h&#038;z=14\">here is the route I took<\/a>, with start and flat tire points marked, and <a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/files\/gps\/22-Mar-08_shelby_township.kmz\">here<\/a> is the KMZ itself.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and those tires? They do great on the pavement, in snow, in a bit of mud where there was no sidewalk, and on grass. I&#8217;m pretty happy with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I decided to see if I could easily get near the Lakeside \/ shopping area via bike, with as little riding in roads as&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/23\/flat-tire-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flat Tire<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,57,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mapping","category-moved-from-livejournal","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24725,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions\/24725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}