Exactly a month of travelling, everything OK till August 4th, a day curiously full of setbacks... I had peacefully pedalled for 74 flat Kms and I was only 22 Kms away from Gent, stage's final for that day. A puncture at the rear wheel, apparently nothing serious. I decide to push the bike up to a gas station where I could have changed the tyre without being then forced to inflate it manually. I took a few steps and the inner tube came totally out of the tyre, which in turn lost its natural place inside the metal rim while the same inner tube, now totally deflated, ended up inextricably interlaced around the wheel axis. It had never happened before to me, something wasn't right. The tyre was new, I had replaced it a few days
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