On 02/15/2017 04:52 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote:
The reason Saint Sheldon recommends that is that a flat rear tire almost never is dangerous.
Whereas a front flat can easily cause a crash, and can auger you right into the ground. It happened to me once. And I've had several HOLY MOLY!! moments when I made a 90 degree turn not realizing my front tire had lost half its pressure due to a small pinhole puncture - that "WHAT JUST HAPPENED???" feeling when the tire rolls under itself because it got too soft. Usually the worst that happens when the back goes flat is a thump-bump thing that we all recognize. (Although, to tell the truth, I once saw a rider struggling along riding with a flat rear tire who asked me what was wrong with her bike and didn't recognize that she had a flat tire -- but she was in such a state of exhaustion and dehydration at the time I doubt she could have told you what her name was.)
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