It was a nice Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I spent a lot of time with my lovely wife, Minda. We had some guests over for Thanksgiving and went out for a bit on Saturday.
Sunday I rode but started later than usual. It was cold. The temperature on my biking computer varied from 24 to 26 degress fahrenheit. It was a nice ride with light wind. I took a number of photos with my iPhone. They were automatically uploaded to my Facebook pages. There were 3 smaller deer in a residential area of Wilmette and one of them I was able to approach pretty closely.
This morning there were 4 of us riding. Mike and I rode up together. Just short of the intersection of Green Bay Road and Lake Cook Road I ran over something metallic which gashed my rear tire and caused me to have a flat. Mike and I changed the inner tube and he was in a hurry so he headed home and I continued on to Once Upon a Bagel in Highland Park. He was kind enough to lend me an extra spare tube just in case I had another flat. I carry one spare tube, a patch kit and a pretty good bike frame mounted bike pump. The was changed and tire and tube were disposed of when I reached home.
It was a good ride in spite of the difficulty. This was my first flat tire in more than a year. Unfortunately the tire was a new one which was installed in June just before RAGBRAI.
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