Well…as you can see, I just couldn’t do a political one today with how sucky this day has been…okay, not that bad but still two flats in two days? Had another one almost all the way out to the beach which meant riding back 6 miles on a flat…again…and I’m not sure what the heck is going on….the punctures aren’t in the same spot on the inside of the tubes so there is nothing that I can see that has been causing them…so, when I got back this afternoon, I tore into the rear wheel to try to find the cause thinking it may be the spoke protector band that wraps around the wheel…so I took another wheel apart from the Motobecane that I kept and got one off and put that in the new wheel….but that was after I had taken the wheel off the old Gravity that was the same wheel as on the new bike (since they are the same model bike), pounded out the axle that had rusted in, changed the gearset over, and inflated the tire, I saw that the tire had started to separate and come apart…so, then I got to work on the new wheel and put on a new gearset that I bought a couple of years ago, cleaned it up since the tube that went flat was full of slime…that is supposed to prevent flats…and put the whole thing back together with the hope that changing out the spoke band and washing the slime out of the wheel will have fixed the problem…if not, I’ll have to change the new tire on the new wheel over to the old one…or just buy a new tire since I’m going to need one before the end of summer…this has become a royal pain in the butt and riding 6 miles back today is going to make me sore tonight and tomorrow and it is starting to make me not want to get on the bike at all…what a pain…