This had been a TIRE-ing day.

You know how it goes sometimes. You pump up your commuting bicycle\’s tires, and head off to work. Before you\’re halfway there, the bicycle suddenly seems awfully hard to pedal; your speed drop; and the bike doesn\’t seem to roll quite right. You stop; dismount; and find a flat tire. And wouldn\’t you know, it\’s the rear tire.

I don\’t carry tools and spare tubes with me on the ride to work. It\’s not as though I have to ride 5 miles or more! This morning my bicycle trunk was stuffed with so many other things that it would have been hard to put in tools and a spare tube.

So I walked the bicycle home; transferred my stuff from the bike trunk to my backpack; and walked to work. It\’s lucky I typically allow myself plenty of time for the ride to work, or I might have  been late. Actually I did get in a few minutes late, but it was easy to compensate for that by coming back from lunch break a little early.

When I got home from work, I got busy on that flat tire. I quickly realized that I needed six hands! Between the rack and the fenders, and trying to hold the bicycle up, getting that wheel off seemed impossible.

I finally walked the bike to the shop — and they couldn\’t find anything wrong with either the tube or the tire.

So, WHAT HAPPENED?? I don\’t know; but this sure has been a TIRE-ing day.