{"id":3897,"date":"2020-12-01T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2020-12-01T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T21:26:07","slug":"puncture-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3897","title":{"rendered":"Puncture Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decided the <strong>Elbow<\/strong> song (although not technically about a bike puncture) was appropriate for today&#8217;s title. My plan today was to finish off untangling the Christmas Lights and putting them up in our Apple Tree which I do every year and then go for a long cycle ride right up to <em><strong>Tewkesbury<\/strong><\/em> as the weather looked perfect. Lights sorted and looking good (don&#8217;t usually put them up this early but we need some cheering up!) and I set off in the Winter sunshine. Delightful ride until I went round Gloucester via the nature reserve by the river. Disaster struck! Got to <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Maisemore Bridge<\/strong> <\/span>and realised I had a slow puncture. No worries fix it and carry on! sadly I then discovered I hadn&#8217;t put back all my tools from last time in the little pack I carry on the bike. Had to call the cavalry to rescue me. So decided to clean my bike when I got home and repair it -and my goodness it does get mucky at the moment every time you ride it!<\/p>\n<p>Story update tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Bird Quiz<\/strong> <\/span>answers from yesterday<\/p>\n<p>a) Condor is the national symbol of <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and Chile\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>b) <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Barn Owls<\/strong> <\/span>are found all over the world\u00a0 c) <span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>New Zealand<\/strong> <\/span>has the most species of flightless birds d) Halcyon is a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Kingfisher\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> e) Ruddock is the old name for <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Robin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> Bike<\/strong> <\/span>quiz questions<\/p>\n<p>a) \u00a0What colour is the <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>King of the Mountains<\/strong> <\/span>jersey in the Tour de France\u00a0 b) What does <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>BMX<\/strong><\/span> stand for?\u00a0 c) In 2019 what <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>% of the 130 million<\/strong> <\/span>bikes were made in China?\u00a0 d) What % of trips are made on <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>bicycles in the Netherlands<\/strong><\/span>? e) Which <em><strong>famous inventor brothers<\/strong> <\/em>who are famous for another form of transport ran a <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>bike shop in Ohio?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decided the Elbow song (although not technically about a bike puncture) was appropriate for today&#8217;s title. My plan today was to finish off untangling the Christmas Lights and putting them up in our Apple Tree which I do every year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3897\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-10R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3899,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}