Bicycle Diaries
30 years riding, 15 years writing
Safety Pin
Debris on the trail.
Finishing up my second lap of the McAlpine and I start hearing some ticking sound coming from my rear wheel. It sounds like a spoke is loose, so I stop to check it out.
I slowly rotate the rear tire and I come across a safety pin stuck in the rubber. I remove it and start hearing a hissing sound, the sound that accompanies walking your bike home. So I rush home before I run out of air, wishing they finish clearing the dead wood from the side of the trails, cause it’s bringing in all sorts of junk onto the gravel.
MTB: distance 13.37 miles, average speed 14.0 mph.
Charlotte, NC
Spent 10 years in Charlotte, a block away from an entrance to the McAlpine Creek Greenway.
Switched to a mountain bike from the road bikes I was accustomed to riding for 15 years.
The time spent on these trails was most appreciated.
Trek Fuel 70
