Today we decided to ride south from Rt 92 to see how the mowing had proceeded, it was mowed but just barely and the weeds in the middle of the path were untouched and still at least 2 foot tall. We hadn't gone far when we came on a tree hanging across the path, I stopped and broke the limbs back until the path was clear, when I rode on Judy was far ahead of me so i rode hard to catch up, soon I saw her in the distance walking towards me pushing her bike, she had a flat. So I got out my patch kit and fixed it, soon we were on our way again. We rode about a mile and she had another flat, DAMN! So I tore the tire apart and found the leak, about 2" from the last one, so after patching the tube again, I checked and re-checked the tire.
The offending tire
Finally I found a little sliver of glass, only by flexing the out side of the tire did I find it. While fixing this flat along came a guy on a bike headed north, we talked and found out he was from Princeton and used to live in Walnut, his ex still lives in walnut and about 6 months ago she had contacted me about old walnut pictures and wondered if I had one of the house she lives in, I did. Small world. He headed north and we continued south and we turned back north at about bridge 62.
On our way back to Rt 92 we came to Aqueduct 9, there were 2 young Amish boys resting there with their bikes.
Soon we met our traveler from Princeton biker on his return trip about where we had talked to him before.
We finally arrived back at Rt 92 and had enjoyed a great ride, other than the flats.
Here is the link to the Garmin Report.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/379908243
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