In 1912, Carl Stern's Clancy and a buddy departed to ride around the world on a seven

horsepower Henderson motorcycle, which by the way was a whopping 934 c.

934 c.C. 934 c. producing 7 horsepower. Interesting. Now that sentence says so much I mean the

world back then was different. Travel was certainly different. More arduous, if not challenging.

But you can imagine the reliability of motorcycles of 1912.

It's not even close to what we have today.

I mean, even 1960 was not even close to what we have today. I mean even 1960 was not even close to what we have today but

think about tires in 1912 other than being round and holding air they're

nothing like the tires that we have today in a way we've got it so easy the modern motorcycle is

incredibly reliable both engine like mechanically electrically everything is

incredibly reliable but the tire the tire is also amazingly tough and reliable, but even still our modern

tires go flat every now and then.

And the reason I'm mentioning this is because I'm thinking, you know, the skill of changing a tire or fixing a flat tire in a motorcycle seems to be something that, well, let's say it's sparsely sprinkled in a group of riders standing together.

There are some people that do it and don't think anything of it.

There's other people who get very sweaty pombed about it.

And then there's a lot of people who like to stand around and watch other people do it in awe, like they're watching some sort of incredible feet.

And it's just a tire. Imagine what it was like to ride in 1912 or 1940 or 1950 or 1960. Our world has definitely changed as far as

riders but we still have to deal with the tire thing. I mean as reliable as

they are they still do go flat and if it's just this one little thing why don't more people

learn how to do it on their own and I think it's because it seems scary it

seems daunting this whole idea of having to take things apart and wrestle a tire on.

Well the fact the matter is patching the tube or plugging a tire is actually very

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