Objects in your tyres

[Guyincognito76]

Recently I have had a thorn, and a piece of metal which have caused me a flat and I have had trouble removing from the actual tyre. The metal I eventually removed using the flat-headed screwdriver from my multitool, but the best I could do with the thorn was to snap the ends and leave the middle in the tyre as it was no longer penetrating the tube.

What, if anything do you carry in your bag for such circumstances (the missus might notice if her tweezers go missing) or am I missing a trick?

 

[mattobrien]

Re thorns, I would look to push them out from the inside of the tyre. You could use something from the multi tool to push with if the offending object was sharp.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

long noses pliers, pull out the way it came in, though I don't tend to have issues with debris in tyres or flats because of the tyres I use and the pressures I run them at

 

[ianrauk]

Get that thorn out. It will eventually work it's way in and cause another puncture.
I carry a Swiss army knife on my cycling travels and commute.

 

[Guyincognito76]

The thorn was actually in the tyre of my bike which was stolen. The metal was in my new bike's tyre, but fortunately most of that broke off into my finger

 

[potsy]

long noses pliers, pull out the way it came in, though I don't tend to have issues with debris in tyres or flats because of the tyres I use and the pressures I run them at

Those solid tyres will never catch on though

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Those solid tyres will never catch on though

used to have a kids bike with those solid tyres. now wonder it has taken me years to have the confidence to lean into corners!
(seriously though I don't get many fairy visits and usually wear tyres out first, have even had an inner tube's rubber perish on me because of the number of years it was on the bike without ever being replaced... that was after fitting armadillo tyres to my commute - working in a school has drawbacks called drawing pins!)

 

[Guyincognito76]

Is there a correlation between the number of punctures in the towns & countryside? I'm semi rural.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Is there a correlation between the number of punctures in the towns & countryside? I'm semi rural.

I have always been rural, and commuted to a rural location as well.

 

[potsy]

used to have a kids bike with those solid tyres. now wonder it has taken me years to have the confidence to lean into corners!
(seriously though I don't get many fairy visits and usually wear tyres out first, have even had an inner tube's rubber perish on me because of the number of years it was on the bike without ever being replaced... that was after fitting armadillo tyres to my commute - working in a school has drawbacks called drawing pins!)

Think I spoilt myself when I first got into cycling nearly 4 years ago, after reading this forum I asked the bike shop to swap the stock tyres for M+, never punctured in 2000 miles.
I get some but not that many, maybe average 1 in 1000-1500 miles over 3 bikes and 3 different types of tyre.
Should really check more often for debris but it's one of those jobs I forget about until I get a flat

 

[Guyincognito76]

Our Welsh thorns are hardier than your soft English thorns though

I think false economics are in affect due to me purchasing a pump without a gauge.

 

[HovR]

Is there a correlation between the number of punctures in the towns & countryside? I'm semi rural.

I have two main road bikes, my weekend bike which I ride 90% in the countryside, and my commute bike which I ride 90% in the town. The tires on my commuter bike get far more cuts, mostly from glass, despite them being more heavy-duty than the Ultremos on my weekend bike.

Both bikes do the same milage roughly each week, although I am yet to puncture on either!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Think I spoilt myself when I first got into cycling nearly 4 years ago, after reading this forum I asked the bike shop to swap the stock tyres for M+, never punctured in 2000 miles.
I get some but not that many, maybe average 1 in 1000-1500 miles over 3 bikes and 3 different types of tyre.
Should really check more often for debris but it's one of those jobs I forget about until I get a flat

never bother about checking for debris either - and if I do remember in a blue moon I never seem to find any.
we have 6 bikes between the 2 of us, and my bikes are my only transport during the week... last visit I had was december 2011 and that lump of metal would have taken a lorry tyre out -- I just don't know how I failed to see it on the road. prior to that.... well June 2010 would be the most likely candidate when I tourer on an expensive mtb with stock tyres and wore them out completely and my distance figures are not that bad considering...

 

[fossyant]

I've had thorns penetrate shoe soles, so tyres are easy game.

 

[ianrauk]

Remember once getting a juicy big fat thorn in my front tyre. I could see the air escaping by the bubbles from the wet tyres. Managed to get to nurse it to a cafe with a slow deflation. Was a right bugger to get the thorn all out of the tyre.