The first tire patch kit I ever owned came in a big green box, had several patches of various sizes which were possibly made of old truck tires. It also came with a sheet of 60 grit sandpaper. The mild high offered from sniffing the glue while applying the patch almost made you stop caring you’d gotten a flat in the first place. Stoned on glue and hypoxic from the V is no way to mend a tire, and most times the patch would start to come off even before I pumped it up and I’d have to start over. Don’t even start me on peeling the clear cellophane off the patch.
The telephone capability of my iPhone is the least-used feature on the device; I email, schedule, text, voxer, browse, twitface, photograph, drop, forget, lose, and find my phone much more than I ever use it to place a call. It has replaced my wristwatch, alarm clock, and flashlight. For some of you, it has even replaced the cyclometer. All this is to say that in today’s view of the world, the value of a product is directly proportional to how useless its original function is.
By that measure, the Park Super Patch kit earns its place in the pantheon of the Reverence series by being more useful as a frame protector than it is as a inner tube patch. They are phenomenal tire patches – much better than the old orange-trimmed slabs of tire I used growing up, but who wants to use a tire patch, much less love one? Therein lies the answer; even as the world of Cycling irrevocably makes its departure from the tire and tube with one faction moving back to the tubular tire and another to the tubeless tire, these patches will continue to feature on frames around the world, dutifully keeping cables from scuffing paint.
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@Cyclops Sweet
@frank
Not riding in crud, yes. There are these things called "roads." And, your bike is like your ass - when done using it, you wipe it off.
@freddy
A product of the Seven factory. And the pic taken with my brand new iPhone 5s, replacing the vaseline smeared iP4 that took all the crappy pictures at the V-to-V cogal. The lens was scratched to shit, so upgrade was needed in preparation for the next Cogal.
@eightzero
And by "the next Cogal," do you refer to a notional event that has been putatively projected for the summer of 2014 and that may or may not be a ride from Seattle to Vancouver, which one can't know because the event remains purely notional and indeed apocryphal because it hasn't been blessed and published by the Keepers?
@PeakInTwoYears
We will put any Cogal up. We pass no judgment as long as it conforms in the thinnest sense to the definition, notionally, if you will. Most importantly is the need for a piss up afterward. The piss up is a putative keystone of the Cogal.
@Gianni
@gianni Pretty sure Peaks is giving you some shit about the STV Cogal article "in the queue." It contains details of the requisite PissUp.
@eightzero
Yes. I am with child to know the details of that ride, putative or even putain-itive as it may be. The darkness is descending, it's 4:49pm and already past official sunset, and I feel a penetrating desire for some vision of the other side of this hellish tunnel I am entering for the next several months.
@PeakInTwoYears
All you need to know: 7/12/14, Arlington WA.