plastic is rubbish

Finally got round to putting my new tyre onto the bike. I've had comments from the bike shop man about my tyre, it was compeltely bald, and last couple of weeks, blue bits wereshowing through where the rubber had completely worn away.

So as I have had so much time this week, and got through so many jobs, I hd no reason to delay any further.

It was a bugger t get on. Thought I wasn't going to do it. Broke all my tyre levers, and I only had two decent ones anyway. Finally I ended up using a couple of spoons.

So today I bought these - metal tyre levers. There is no substitute: