Between when I bought my road bike in the fall of 2002 until this spring, I’ve had one flat tire. I blew out the tire in Marina del Ray when I ran over a cracked sea shell, slicing both the tire and tube. The seagulls dropped shell fish from the air onto the concrete to crack them open. Ingenious, but bad for bike tires.

Since riding on the bike trail, I’ve had two flat tires, both small punctures from thorns. The second was today. Thankfully, in both cases I was able to find the thorn and remove it from the tire. The tube was shot, but that’s no big deal. Tubes are only like $4 a piece, so replacing them is cheap and I’m getting pretty good at replacing tubes. After the sea shell incident, I started riding Michelin Axial Carbon tires, which are $30 a pop (but known as extremely puncture proof). So replacing tires would really suck.

Anyway, just complaining about my recent bike tire luck.