Best tire pressure to get home with damaged tire

[fossyant]

I carry a section of plastic document wallet, or indeed some card. I've actually enough old tyres to make numerous boots out of the casing - might just do that.

 

[fossyant]

I think the piece of old tyre is the best suggestion so far. I will have to have a look to see what I have lying about. I usually keep a few worn but unholed tyres for turbo trainer spares. ***




*** I have just remembered that someone suggested this a couple of years ago. I think that there may already be a strip of tyre lurking at the bottom of the backpack that I wear on rides.

An old MTB tyre will give you enough 'sidewall' to cut out without grinding off tread to make a boot.

 

[ColinJ]

An old MTB tyre will give you enough 'sidewall' to cut out without grinding off tread to make a boot.

I think that I have a very worn MTB slick which would be ideal for this application.

I suppose the next question is 'What length?'

I have seen tyres split/cut to 3-4 cm, which is about as big as I would feel safe booting. So, an 8 cm boot might be long enough. Or make it 10, just in case?

 

[Ajax Bay]

Suggest 80mm is enough, considering hazard x risk. Duct tape as first layer and carried anyway for other duties as necessary.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Is it in the rulez that a tyre boot doesn't count unless it's improvised from something else (milk carton, toothpaste tube, £50 note etc)

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Is it in the rulez that a tyre boot doesn't count unless it's improvised from something else (milk carton, toothpaste tube, £50 note etc)

£50 note! How the other half lives.