From Tire to Abstract Art

In my review of the Tannus Airless Tire I mentioned that it took super human strength to get the tire on my bike rim.

Yesterday, while I was rolling out of the driveway, I hit a bump in the gutter and my rear tire magically transformed from a functional form into a piece of abstract art.

The bump, pictured below, was not exceptionally pronounced. I rolled from left to right diagonally across the gutter. The bump is asphalt ledge in the bottom right of the image. It is about an inch rise. It is the type of thing that mountain bikes hit on a regular basis.

I was thinking of hanging the rim in an art gallery as it has an intriguing artistic form:

I tied the tire to a chair trying to show the figure eight form of the tire:

Training Rides

I happen to live on a hillside. There is a steep drop to the valley floor and the mountains to the East are brutal

All of my rides involved steep hill climbs. The odometer on the bike changed from 94.8 to 201.0. I believe the units are kilometers. So, I made it 106.2 km.

I started making maps with my fancy Garmin Watch.

DateDistanceElevation Gain
2022-07-104.09 milesna
2022-07-114.56 milesna
2022-07-125.31 milesna
2022-07-134.05 miles522 ft
2022-07-144.99 miles705 ft
2022-07-156.05 miles938 ft
2022-07-166.23 miles712 ft
2022-07-176.29 miles909 ft
Total41.57 miles3,786 ft

As you can see my rides involve massive elevation gains. My rides usually involve me making death grips on the handle bars as I descend steep hills followed by gruel treks back up the hill.

Hills, hills, hills, everywhere steep hills!

Here are some of the maps I drew:

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I did a large number of rides without recording a map. Several of the rides involved going in a circle with a hill and descent. I probably topped 5,000 ft gain in the short lifetime of my ill fated tires.

In the first map I cycled up to "Mile High Drive." I wanted to go to the end of the circle, but there was a sign saying Private Property.

In the second and third maps I decided to cycle into Millcreek, Utah. I went to my local post office. I designed the route so that I could go on some flat roads so that I could practice spinning.

During each ride I planned writing a HIVE post. I didn't post them as I think that daily fitness posts are a bit too ego-centric. I was making a little progress. I wanted to work up to 10 miles a day with 2,000 feet gains.

I would actually go further but every ride involves a steep ascent.

The tires cost me my entire HBD savings for the year. I now need to figure out how to get the funds to buy a new wheel, and I need to figure out how to install it.

Conclusion

I said in my review of Tannus tires that I like the tubeless tire concept. I've had several bike pumps stolen from my bike through the years. The tubeless tires means that one can do rides without carrying a pump and spare tube.

The problem comes with trying to put the tires on old rims. The tires were way too tight. It required super human strength to get the tires on the rim. The tires distorted the rim when I hit a bump in the road.

It is best to buy the tire and rim combination (which is extremely expensive). If you want to add a Tannus tire to an existing rim, I would recommend using a local installer as they might figure out the problem that caused my tire to implode.

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daily fitness posts are a bit too ego-centric.

I agree, I have been into my health since I was 12 or 13. Already in this short response I am tempted to boast about my achievements with soccer clubs and distances I ran selflessly.

But I will save those memories for the next person I go running or biking with.

P.S. have you ever brought up a hard-core political issue while everyone is short on breath in a workout lol fun times.

I love the concept of #actifit. I think that tokens are a great way to motivate fitness.

I also like the use of fitness trackers. My tracker allowed me to measure my daily hill climb.

The posts just don't come off well in an open forum. I noticed that several of the tribal tokens exclude posts with the actifit tag.

P.S. have you ever brought up a hard-core political issue while everyone is short on breath in a workout lol fun times.

I've learned to hold my tongue. Most of the people I know are staunch progressives. Progressives are trained to throw political barbs into every conversation. Like: It's hot today. We need socialism to stop global warming.

All mentions of health lead into demands for socialized health care.

A walk through a national forest leads to barbs about how all land should be federalized and owned by the people. If we had socialism then all land would be like the national forests.

The right is as bad. I live in Utah. I do not belong to the established religion in the state. Most of the conservatives I know simply don't talk to me.

US based conservatives hate the fact that I studied the history of Conservatism.

Hey, did you know that there are countries, other than the United States, where people speak English?

Hey, did you know that Queen Elizabeth is not a Republican?

Anyway, I've learned to avoid politics in personal conversations. It never goes well.

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I use a pedometer on my phone but more so just reference it when I curious about a distance more so than the calories burnt or anything like that.

It would be ideal for my interests, for a actifit kind of reward system to be entirely passive, the social aspect of the actifit token was too much for me.

I blog late at night typically in deep thought, I usually won't get to this state of thinking kid day during the physical routine of that day.

That's not a good outcome, will you get a new rim and swap the tyre over?

The tyre is held in with 40 clips. The literature says that the tyre goes through a chemical change after it has been installed; so I am not really sure that it can be moved to a new rim.

I will have to give the company a call to find out my options. Most likely the rim and tyre are now just an abstract art sculpture.

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