Ola'

HJ, Scooby and I met up for a ride at West Hartford and had an adventure worth sharing and at least one new addition for the bike graveyard. 4PM-The ride  started out pretty typical out of main lot to singletrack along the fence line. We both ride the big log but HJ exits of with a bit more grace. Long climb to the top
of the power lines via single track and Scooby only cuts Buda off two or three times. Into the woods and I can see Buda has a few more tricks in his bag. In  addition to some textbook wheelie drops he is doing some bunnyhop move over some lying logs. We both Wheelie the 2.5 footer and found two new rock
drops(3'&4') and hit them both and finally hucked that weird double ledge/drop but passed on the big rock, Buda rolled it and "I'll be back". After some "hucking  around" and what started out as a really fun ride everything was stopped short just before the logride when we both flatted simultaneously. Buda had no tube
but thankfully I had a tube for myself and a patch kit with 10 new patches(pay attention, this is foreshadowing). Buda needed two for what turned out to be a  classic snakebite. Buda rides the log wheelie off the end and I endo onto the rocks but go back to complete stunt. We get back into a nice rhythm and I had  just shown HJ this cool wheelie drop rock when he flats again. This time after fixing the first snakebite and starting to inflate his tire he finds another, that's 4  more patches, inflate again and the tire is still leaking, HJ rips off one of the patches thinking it's the culprit and realizes his mistake, yes, another puncture. At
this point at least 15 people have asked "are we allright" and this time and tell this guy "were not and does he have a tube". He graciously gives us his only  tube and were back in business. I jump on my steed and realize that I flatted on the same rock. Two patches for his first flat, two more snakebites makes four
more, one ripped off and two more patches makes two,four....Eight! well, I have no more tubes and locate the puncture. My tire fails to inflate and I find the  other puncture, snakebite two hundred fifty..what the %$#@! Two more patches makes ten! I get the tire seated and we are off. 50 yards down the trail and my
tire rolls the rim, tube explodes and I am Downhilling on my Mavic 317. Wait a minute! we still have Buda's snakebitten tube with..seven patches. I get the  tube set, by this time HJ and I can patch a flat, have the tire back on the rim and seated in under 30 seconds. We make the mistake of setting up shop in the
middle of a downhill and are nearly runover by a troop of like 20 riders. Scooby's running between bikes, there's dust everywhere, another round of "are we  allright" and most of the humor of the situation is lost. I begin inflating my tire and the tube as well as my SIDEWALL explode. We hike-a-bike with Buda
carrying my tire and rim my Bullit over my shoulder and Scooby under foot. 8PM We Finally hit the lot and asked to leave over megaphone by some chick in a  security vehicle. My wife still thinks we went to Cahoots. I think Buda may keep the tube for posterity sake. He tells me its the first and only tube that tire has  seen. I suppose the ride deserves a rating.

Rating: 10 partially used condoms/patches. One extraordinary large pubic hair you find in your ham and cheese sandwich after biting into something crunchy  and realizing there is nothing crunchy about ham and cheese.