Found this thing...

[punkypossum]

...in my puncture repair kit... It's about an inch long and looks like a piece of a thin straw, but made out of flexible rubber...

No idea what it's for, can anybody enlighten me please?

 

[dav1d]

...in my puncture repair kit... It's about an inch long and looks like a piece of a thin straw, but made out of flexible rubber...

No idea what it's for, can anybody enlighten me please?

I've always wondered that too. Never used one (how can I when I don't know what it's for?) myself.

 

[mr_hippo]

It is used on the Woods (or Dunlop) valve which was very common at one time in the UK.

The photo below shows a stripped down Woods and shows the central core both with and without the rubber tubing.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Thank you very much indeed. I always meant to ask about those but never got around to it

It is used on the Woods (or Dunlop) valve which was very common at one time in the UK.

The photo below shows a stripped down Woods and shows the central core both with and without the rubber tubing.

 

[summerdays]

I thought they were meant for spreading the glue

 

[John the Monkey]

I always preferred Mr Paul's explanation that it was "A snorkel for bees".

Other whimsical answers;

"It is a catheter tube. Insert it, and you can pee down the leg of your shorts where the pee evaporates. Not sure if it works for women" Jay Clock

"sneak it into a mate's macaroni cheese and watch their face. :P" andygates

"It's for use as a temporary airway when your glands swell & block up your throat when you mistakenly eat a chocolate peanut thinking it's a chocolate raisin." ChrisKH

( http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=9171&highlight=woods+valve )

 

[asterix]

Mathematically, I think it's a sign that the set of people who make inner tubes and the set of people who make puncture repair kits have no intersection.

 

[Wigsie]

I thought they were meant for spreading the glue

Ha ha..... er +1

 

[tyred]

The thing is that unless you have original valves from the 1950s, it's useless anyway as modern Woods valves don't use that system.

 

[punkypossum]

Thanks! Well, as it is not much use for it's intended purpose, I might start finding other uses for it!

 

[HLaB]

Thanks! Well, as it is not much use for it's intended purpose, I might start finding other uses for it!

Do you keep bees?

I always preferred Mr Paul's explanation that it was "A snorkel for bees".

 

[Amanda P]

Many years ago, the lab where I worked had a first aid cupboard. Among its contents was a glass jar labelled "leeches".

It actually containd about thirty of these peices of rubber tube in some water, but they did look like leeches (albeit rather inactive ones).

 

[tyred]

Many years ago, the lab where I worked had a first aid cupboard. Among its contents was a glass jar labelled "leeches".

It actually containd about thirty of these peices of rubber tube in some water, but they did look like leeches (albeit rather inactive ones).

First aid for your bike just incase you had a leaky valve

 

[Arch]

Do you keep bees?

And do they swim much?

 

[ChrisKH]

I always preferred Mr Paul's explanation that it was "A snorkel for bees".

Other whimsical answers;

"It is a catheter tube. Insert it, and you can pee down the leg of your shorts where the pee evaporates. Not sure if it works for women" Jay Clock

"sneak it into a mate's macaroni cheese and watch their face. :P" andygates

"It's for use as a temporary airway when your glands swell & block up your throat when you mistakenly eat a chocolate peanut thinking it's a chocolate raisin." ChrisKH
( http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=9171&highlight=woods+valve )

I can't even remember typing that.