Ya Gotta Love YouTube!!

What on earth did we ever do BEFORE YouTube?

Well, this blog would largely not exist (and of course the value of THAT can be debated)-as I use a YouTube video clip every day-to either reinforce my feeble points-or to showcase something interesting that I have found.

While many useless videos exist, burning up untold hours of viewing by millions of users, there is something there for everyone-and plenty of knowledge and expertise that used to come expensively is now at our fingertips for free.

Case in point-and I am a bit embarrassed about this, but here goes:

My college age son had one of his bicycle tires slashed on campus. We went to visit him this weekend and purchased a new inner tube and tire at a large sporting goods chain. After the purchase, we were informed that their in-house bike shop could not install said tire because the “technician” was not in that day.

Of course, I said—“How hard can it be to change a bike tire?” I am 50 years old-have ridden bikes all my life, but never had to actually change a tire on one.

I found out.

While the rest of my family went grocery shopping, I told them that I would try to mount the new inner tube/tire while they went inside. So, here I am in the parking lot, wrestling without tools and losing miserably to the rim from hell. Very entertaining to my fellow parking lot inhabitants, some of whom I am convinced are delaying their entrance or exit from the parking lot in order to watch my epic struggle.

After my laughing family comes out with the groceries to discover the carnage I have wrought in a public place, we decide to drop back 15 and punt.

So, I go to You Tube and type “changing a bicycle tire” in the search bar. MANY search results, but this one from Expert Village (which presumably aggregates experts in many fields to instruct idiots like myself on a variety of topics)—this one caught my attention and I decided to share it with you:






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oFXewhx3BE

Looks easy, doesn’t it? Looks like I have my evening planned-and I’ll let you know how I did, assuming my efforts tonight don’t include a trip to the emergency room!


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