So there I’m, Simply Driving Alongside on the Ol’ Croton Aqueduct, once I stumble upon this open hatch:
The aqueduct was accomplished in like 1842, and it hasn’t been used since just like the Sixties, so the one cheap clarification for one in every of these hatches being open is that some demon or disgruntled undead upkeep employee or different malevolent drive has escaped from it:
Eerily that is additionally mere yards from the Son Of Sam Satanic Ritual Spot:
Which is hidden behind iron bars:
Although simply accessed by way of an iron gate adorned with an Informative QR Code From Hell:
This infernal public backyard is a pleasant place for a household picnic.
Or to WORSHIP SATAN.
However largely for picnics.
On this explicit event I used to be driving the Roaduno, which is again in singlespeed mode for the foreseeable future:
I take pleasure in utilizing each clipless and flat pedals (not on the identical time in fact, although someone someplace might be driving round with a flat pedal on one facet and a clipless pedal on the opposite), however when it’s this sizzling flat pedals are the clear winner, as a result of they can help you experience in sandals, which is likely one of the finest methods there may be to remain cool on the bike–or at the very least much less sizzling.
I did should restore a flat earlier than heading out, because the rear tire appeared to have a gradual leak. I usually attempt to restore a tube earlier than changing it with a brand new one, although if I inflate a tube with a gradual leak and may’t discover stated leak instantly then I throw it away as a result of few issues are extra infuriating than mysteriously leaking tubes. (That is the place you inform me to go tubeless, and I let you know to close up.) Particularly irritating is when a mysteriously leaking tube will get combined in together with your assortment of used-but-perfectly-good tubes and you may’t inform the distinction till you utilize it after which the subsequent time you wish to go for a experience the tire is flat. Talking of which, in checking my varied spare tubes for leaks, I inflated one in every of them and located this:
I’ve by no means encountered this type of defect earlier than, and it seems like a snake that’s digesting an egg:
I don’t know if its integrity is compromised or not, however I’ve put in it on one other bike and we’ll see what occurs.
As all the time I used to be shocked at simply how briskly the Roaduno felt, and I’ve determined to attribute it to the Energy of Biopace:
Sorry, I centered on the mistaken spot:
It’s a brand new telephone and I’m nonetheless figuring it out.
Aside from the open Portal to Hell, the one different subject I encountered on the experience was a creaking sound:
You understand how when your bike is creaking and one of many first belongings you test is the chainring bolts as a result of that’s very easy, though it’s by no means, ever the chainring bolts? Effectively, this time it was the chainring bolts, which have been shockingly unfastened–wish to the purpose I’m shocked the chainring didn’t fall off. I’m unsure how this occurred, however perhaps I forgot to tighten them within the first place. This appears unlikely because the bike solely began creaking not too long ago, but it additionally sounds precisely just like the type of factor I’d do, so who is aware of? So it’s both that or a demon loosened them within the evening.
Then once I bought dwelling all sweaty and disgusting and prepared for a bathe I found I had no operating water due to a water predominant break. So my son and I bought within the automobile and picked up eight gallons of bottled water, and by the point we bought dwelling the water was again on once more. So between the damaged water predominant and the open Portal to Hell alongside the previous timey aqueduct, it appears fairly apparent to me that there are evil creatures lurking within the pipes.
Simply one thing to bear in mind.
