{"id":198,"date":"2006-06-04T14:08:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T19:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/04\/fat-flat-tires-anyone\/"},"modified":"2006-06-04T14:08:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T19:08:16","slug":"fat-flat-tires-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/04\/fat-flat-tires-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat flat tires anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I rode on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorbacsra.org\/Fats.html\">Fork Area Trail System (FATS)<\/a> for the first time. After a few good miles of trail riding during our recent camping trip, I was eager to try this new set of trails. I&#8217;d heard and read it&#8217;s more technical than anything I&#8217;ve ridden before, but I figured I&#8217;m in good shape and not afraid to get off and walk over any obstacles too tough for me to ride, so why not? <\/p>\n<p>Two flat tires is apparently why not. I was 4 miles in to about 12 miles of riding when the crossed a road. On the pavement I noticed from the funny noise coming from below me that both my tires were flat. I wasn&#8217;t deterred, I got off my bike, turned it over, took off the tires, installed a new tube starting with the rear tire because I figured it would be more trouble, hooked my old CO2 inflator up with a new cartridge, and turned the air valve. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently the old CO2 inflator I&#8217;ve been carrying in my seat pack since, oh, about 1998 or so doesn&#8217;t work at all. It must be missing a part because it doesn&#8217;t open the cartridges. Good thing I don&#8217;t get many flats! I&#8217;ve since replaced the inflator with a new one, plus purchased an extra cartridge so I can test to make sure it&#8217;s working correctly before I get myself in to another situation where I&#8217;ve got a long walk back to the car. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I rode on the Fork Area Trail System (FATS) for the first time. After a few good miles of trail riding during our recent camping trip, I was eager to try this new set of trails. I&#8217;d heard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/04\/fat-flat-tires-anyone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}