addictfreak
Guru
- Location
- Boldon, Tyne and Wear
Im in the no patch club. I generally bulk buy tubes when there on offer so it works out quite cheap.
patches on tubes.
- Thread starter gavroche
- Start date
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Crikey Svendo - you don't look old enough to have done your cycling proficiency test in 1980; how old were you when you took it!
I took mine in 1965!
(PS - are you doing Season of Mists again this year?)
I was 9;
Yes.
tigger
Über Member
I only carry spare tubes and Co2. The idea of patching and hand pumping to high pressure sends shivers down my spine.
That said... and I know I'm tempting fate here now... I've never had a puncture. I don't cycle in built up areas, I check my kit meticulously and, most importantly I think, I check my tyre pressure every week.
How come people get so many punctures?
That said... and I know I'm tempting fate here now... I've never had a puncture. I don't cycle in built up areas, I check my kit meticulously and, most importantly I think, I check my tyre pressure every week.
How come people get so many punctures?
peelywally
Active Member
if you lived round here so would you
id rather carry pkt of patches and mini pump (i really hate mini pumps btw )
than co2pump and 4 refils plus 4 spare tubes .
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Blimey, you wear it well - I'd have said you were early 30s!
(Give it time though - I used to look young for my age but now I'm struggling to only look my age!
)
pshore
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Last contour N of Cambridge
Lol. Is that stranded cyclists who had a puncture, used their spare tube, then got another puncture?
I am a patcher, replacing the tube when they don't hold air so well. If I was getting to the point of 50 patches I think I might have changed my tyres by now to m+. I think I get them once every 1000km.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I've done it a few times. One mate used up bothe his 2 spare tubes before he realised that a troublesome shard of glass was still embedded in his tyre. (Why wouldn't it be! I always do a 'post-mortem' before swapping tubes unless I know it was a snakebite puncture.)
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Deleted member 1258
Guest
I got caught on that one a few years ago, leaving work on a winters evening only to find I had got a flat, changed the tube and pulled some glass out of the tyre by the light in the compressor house at work. I got home, and back to work the following day, but by dinner time the tyre was flat again, a closer look by daylight and I discovered a tiny piece of amber indicator glass I had missed the previous night.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Spare tube and a patch kit as well. Lezyne Road Drive pump. I needed both the tube and the patch kit today. She visited twice. Unless it's really close to the valve, or raining, a patch doesn't take more than a couple of minutes. I find them quite fun.
Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
I couldn't do that. A patch only costs a few pence and you can fix it in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea. Less if it's hot tea. Besides I think we should make our rubber resourses stretch as far as possible.
Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
To all the people who replace a tube every time they get a p. what do you do with the old tube?
Holdsworth
Guru
- Location
- Crewe, Cheshire
I take at least one spare tube, two if it is a longer ride, and a puncture repair kit just in case I have more than one visit. If I can I will replace at the roadside and inflate with a Topeak Road Morph, no need for faffing with CO2 and spending £2.50 per cartridge; and I will repair a tube at the earliest opportunity when I get home and put it in the bag for the next time. I am using Tip Top TT02 patches and they work a treat, compared to cheaper kits that can be picked up in Wilkos they are brill and look like they will never fail as they just weld to the tube.
