So there I’m, Simply Driving Alongside on the Ol’ Croton Aqueduct, after I encounter this open hatch:
The aqueduct was accomplished in like 1842, and it hasn’t been used since just like the Nineteen Sixties, so the one cheap rationalization for one among these hatches being open is that some demon or disgruntled undead upkeep employee or different malevolent power 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 through 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 specific 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 after all, although any individual 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 assist you to journey in sandals, which is without doubt one of the greatest methods there’s to remain cool on the bike–or at the least much less sizzling.
I did need to 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 mentioned 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 along with your assortment of used-but-perfectly-good tubes and you’ll’t inform the distinction till you employ it after which the subsequent time you wish to go for a journey the tire is flat. Talking of which, in checking my numerous spare tubes for leaks, I inflated one among them and located this:
I’ve by no means encountered this form of defect earlier than, and it seems to be like a snake that’s digesting an egg:
I do not 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 stunned at simply how briskly the Roaduno felt, and I’ve determined to attribute it to the Energy of Biopace:
Sorry, I centered on the fallacious spot:
It’s a brand new cellphone and I’m nonetheless figuring it out.
Other than the open Portal to Hell, the one different challenge I encountered on the journey was a creaking sound:
You know the way when your bike is creaking and one of many first belongings you examine is the chainring bolts as a result of that’s very easy, though it’s by no means, ever the chainring bolts? Properly, this time it was the chainring bolts, which have been shockingly unfastened–wish to the purpose I’m stunned 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 just lately, but it additionally sounds precisely just like the form of factor I’d do, so who is aware of? So it’s both that or a demon loosened them within the night time.
Then after I acquired residence all sweaty and disgusting and prepared for a bathe I found I had no working water due to a water most important break. So my son and I acquired within the automotive and picked up eight gallons of bottled water, and by the point we acquired residence the water was again on once more. So between the damaged water most important 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.
