{"id":991,"date":"2025-11-05T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/?p=991"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:15:35","slug":"flat-tire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/05\/flat-tire\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat tire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ain\u2019t this a bitch. It is a good thing I opted for the maximum AAA services, because between the motorcycles and cages, something is always breaking down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0004.jpg?resize=525%2C554\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0004.jpg?resize=971%2C1024 971w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0004.jpg?resize=284%2C300 284w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0004.jpg?resize=768%2C810 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0004.jpg?w=1024 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I took off in the morning knowing it would be a stormy ride. I got hit going through the small town of Ione. Riding in a storm is nothing new to me but one thing about riding on hard rain, you can see what is under the area where puddles have formed or the depth of a pothole. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it turned out I ran over a big ass nail or spike. I got it dead center of the wheel. This would normally be a plug fix, but in this instance the nail caused a slight tear using a plug was out of the question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0007.jpg?resize=525%2C554\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0007.jpg?resize=971%2C1024 971w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0007.jpg?resize=284%2C300 284w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0007.jpg?resize=768%2C810 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0007.jpg?w=1024 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One this is for certain, I was actually fortunate getting the flat after work, I was able to wait for a tow at the convenience of my work lobby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0008.jpg?resize=525%2C554\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0008.jpg?resize=971%2C1024 971w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0008.jpg?resize=284%2C300 284w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0008.jpg?resize=768%2C810 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0008.jpg?w=1024 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ain\u2019t this a bitch. It is a good thing I opted for the maximum AAA services, because between the motorcycles and cages, something is always breaking down. I took off in the morning knowing it would be a stormy ride. I got hit going through the small town of Ione. Riding in a storm is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/05\/flat-tire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flat tire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-out-riding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_0006.jpg?fit=1024%2C1080","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glcruzn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}