First puncture

[dee.jay]

Oh well first of many I guess! Surprised it was so quick. Sure I had read the Kenda tyres on my bike are not very good.

Also, are skinny tyres really that much of a pain the arse to change? I think I had to let a few expletives slip...

 

[andyfraser]

I feel for you. Punctures are never nice.

When I got my first puncture on my hybrid it was a nice day. I got the wheel off and the heavens opened. I had bought some Marathon Plus tyres but thought I'd try the Continentals the bike came with as they were advertised as being puncture resistant. I got in and the Marathons went straight on!

 

[dee.jay]

Yeah might buy some Marathon Pluses now. I'm wanting to commute on this bike... Haha. Will see how this week goes

 

[andyfraser]

I haven't had a single puncture with them so far and I throw the bike around a lot on the untarmaced section of NCN45 and ride along the glass strewn cycle paths here. They're a really bugger to get on though but they are worth it.

 

[screenman]

Practise, I have written this before but whilst you sit down and watch corrie or the suchlike take the tyre off and refit 10 times, you will be very quick next time you puncture on the road.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

My front Gatorskin has done about 8,200 miles without a puncture, the back had two pinch punctures where I hit a stone so hard it pinched the tube against the rim, the second one was so hard it put a dent in the rim and took a chunk of rubber out of the tyre, after chaging the tube it still ran a few hundred miles before i got another, not had one on the new rear yet and that's nearly 2,000 miles, since early June, the front also it seems survived a scrape with a kerb yesterday, which a similar thing some years back took a chunk out of the Kenda I was on

The ultra sports or the new equivalent I wouldn't trust more than a couple of hundred miles.

 

[broady]

I fitted the slime inner tube on my commuter bike after I got a punture. I don't have anything negative to say about them on my commuter, but I've stuck with normal ones on my bike I ride for pleasure

 

[Ticktockmy]

When you name comes up on the "P" fairies list, just submit yourself to the pain, just hope you are not in line for a daily or weekly visit. I fitted some new tyres last year thought I would take them for a short ride to bed them in, and bang front tyre punctured, fixed that then the rear went, by the time I got home I had repaired both tyres twice, since then fingers crossed, I have not had a visit from the "P" fairies. Sods law at work.

 

[dee.jay]

I was lucky that I only happened to find it when I pulled the bike out to fit my new lights so must have happened at the end of yesterday's quick jaunt

 

[Markymark]

Punctures are irritating but replacing the run-flats on my BMW was fudging exoensive too so keep it in perspective!

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Punctures are irritating but replacing the run-flats on my BMW was fudging exoensive too so keep it in perspective!

Get a cheaper car or non run-flats.

 

[dee.jay]

Yeah true - tyres for cars are expensive! £40 on a pair of marathons is a bargain really.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Yeah true - tyres for cars are expensive! £40 on a pair of marathons is a bargain really.

Gatorskins, no slime ect, the only two times I have took the front tyre off once to replace a broken spoke the other to change the wheel two weeks later, in fact the tyre outlasted the wheel, the wheel didn't do 7,000 miles, the only time it really seems to lose air is when I put the track pump on to make sure they are at the correct pressure, very time it drops to 80-85psi from about 110, this could just be the amount in the chamber though I doubt it as it take three pumps to get it back up.

 

[joe schmoe]

Practise, I have written this before but whilst you sit down and watch corrie or the suchlike take the tyre off and refit 10 times, you will be very quick next time you puncture on the road.

+1 . Sound advice indeed especially if the thought of having to deal with a puncture when you're out on a ride daunting.