Saturday, November 14, 2009

056: guest poster

From the land of Californication:

Dear Bibs the Michelin Man,

Today I had the pleasure of changing a flat Michelin tire 3.5 hours into a ride. I'm not blaming the tire for attracting and holding on to 3 shards of small rocks, or the wet road conditions. However, every other tire manufacturer has somehow figured out the diameter of a standard road rim by now, except your engineering department.

Trying to get the last few inches of tire back on the rim while kneeling on the side of the road with cramping legs and almost breaking off both my thumbs in the process, all I wanted to do was PUNCH YOUR F***ING PASTY INFLATED FRENCHIE FACE laughing at me from the sidewall.

Kind Regards,
Jan.

Had me laughing out loud.

9 comments:

RacerMike said...

hahahahahah, oh man, that is funny.

hey, it's me said...

boogie boogie boogie

hey, it's me said...

try this again

hey, it's me said...

this time for sure

MLKimages said...

is he sure it's not the rim? All my Michelin's work fine on all except one type of rim. needless to say I no longer am using that wheelset for the exact same reasons.

vonteity said...

Two words: tire lever.

Anonymous said...

Man up

onelegmatt said...

I've had the same issues with Continental "tyres".

You'd think "Zee Germans" would engineer "tyres" better than anyone.

Nope.

Jake said...

nope... Michelins suck. I fear the day I get a flat when out on a road ride.

Marc, missed you at Mercer last weekend...