If anybody blew past a commuter without a seat this morning, that was me.
Backstory - half way into my morning commute my seat explodes. I was fearing the worst, as if my seat post snapped or something. I had literally busted a nut. I never thought I'd see the day, it sawed off right at the threads. So I trudged my way into the office with seat in hard and a very bruised ego and sore calves from riding outside the saddle for 7kms.
I assumed it was a quick and easy fix. Boy was I wrong. Not one of the 3 bike shops I went to downtown (The Bike Shop, MEC, or Bike Bike) had a single nut and bolt that would fit in my seat mount (and they call themselves repair shops). So I reluctantly bought a new seat post for my ride home (will sell to any CPer for half price if interested). Who knew that needing one nut and bolt would be so difficult, literally a pain in my ass
. And to cap off the rough commute / attempted fix, I swallowed a fly on the ride home while traveling up wind. Good news though, as I was swishing around some water at a stop light, I spat out the fly.
Hopefully everybody else had a better Thursday