Father’s Day Fixie Fifty

Today’s planned route was the Father’s day Fixie Fifty miler through hilly Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Hit some fantastic personal records for riding the fixie including climbing some of my steepest\longest hills, highest RPM reached (169) and nailing some serious VO2 max numbers. Garmin states I need some decent recover time.


During the last climb of the day at mile 43, it sounded like a rifle shot fired. The front Schwalbe Marathon Plus tire blew out at the bead. I was kind of shocked to have such a massive blowout, especially from the sidewall. I’ve never had a flat running Marathoners from road debris, so I think this was a total fluke.
 

I failed the rando ethos by not having a spare tire with me, so wifey had to provide SAG support back to the start. I sent Schwalbe a note about the tire incident and how little wear there was. Will update the blog with how Schwalbe responds. As soon as I got back, I installed a new dry bag style saddle bag with more room that has an improvement from 1.5L to 5L storage capacity.