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Screw you, nature
Well folks, you haven't lived until you've ridden through hail. I took The Beast for a ride with my mum around Currumbin today. We went up through the Currumbin hinterland/forest area, past the rock pools and further out. We stopped briefly at the rock pools to have a bit of a stretch. I heard thunder. Mum turned to me and said, "looks like it might rain". We kept riding. Three minutes into it, the heavens opened and it started piss-pouring down. Fine, a bit of water, sucks to be us. Anyway, we decided to stop and don arm/leg warmers, then turned back. 500m into it, the cold wind snapped up, and the rain turned into hail. ()*&(AT)#$&#!!!!!!!!!!!!! The sound of hail hitting my helmet and glasses was surpassed only by the pain of it smacking into my face at 30Kph. GRRRRAAARRRGHHHH!!!!!!!!!! We pulled over to find shelter at the rock pools. While there, my mum needed help with something or other, so I leaned my bike up against one of the picnic seats and turned around to help her. A GUST OF WIND BLEW IT OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My precious, brand new, never been so much as looked at the wrong way bike!!!! DAMN YOU HEAVENS! DAMN YOU NATURE!!! DAMN YOU WIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I shook there impotently waving an angry fist at nature when my mum decided the weather was as good as it was going to get. And so, we rode back home, saturated, hailed upon and cold. 3Km from home, mum got a flat. Fine. Pulled over, inspected tyre, changed tube. Realised after tube had been changed that the valve was the wrong length. Fine, change tube again. Hissing sound upon inflation. Inspected tyre again, couldn't find anything, found a sharp bit in the rim. Put a bandaid over the sharp bit, changed tube AGAIN, inflated, hissing sound. Finally found the stone that had caused one of the punctures. Meanwhile, I'm freezing my tits off, standing around on the side of the road while mum's dicking about with the three tube changes. After the third unsuccessful tube change, she'd run out of tubes and we decided it was all too hard, and walked the rest of the way home.