RE: 🚴 Catastrophic Tire Failure In Suriname 🚳👎
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Oh man! I'm sorry to hear about this awful incident. Yeah, the moment it blew must have been a shock! Not to mention, being deaf for the next five minutes... Good thing you didn't get hurt when it happened. How did that brake arm break?
Yeah, getting flat tube is annoying, but a slashed tire is a whole different issue. I'm glad you managed to find a replacement. I'd hold on to the old one, to make a couple of boots, just in case. My bike mechanic friends recommended me to carry around a piece of old tire (about 10-20 cm), together with a spare tube. If my tire gets a hole that boot will prevent the tube from herniating out. Not a permanent solution, but it may save one from walking to the next bike shop.
The worst thing about it all, the part that gets me upset, is the stripped screw... which the shop sold to you!!! So that means you can't even take of the wheel to change a tire? That's just so beyond acceptable...! And I bet they don't care about offering follow-up service and maybe help remove it. So I wish you good success and a chilled out mindset removing the screw. (That dish looks yummy, by the way!)
It scared the dickens out of little Monkey-B, but luckily we weren't in the middle of hard turn or anything like that, just casually riding straight at low speed with no traffic.
Definitely good to always care some bits and pieces like you said. I do that here in Suriname and the USA, but in Cambodia it's all too easy to get a professionally done patch for 50 cents. They even start a fire to melt rubber, slide the tube out negating the need to remove the wheel, and then they use a clamp to make sure the patch adheres strongly.
I've had tubes in Cambodia with 14 or more patches before replacing, shame it isn't so easy and cheap here. The user-friendliness of Cambodia is unrivaled.
Just incredible how ideal certain places can be, in certain aspects!