Punctured inner tubes, save or bin?

[E11a]

I replace the tube when I'm out (always carry 2 spares!) and patch the punctured one(s) when I get home. There's something satisfying about repairing tubes ... or maybe that's just the adhesive

 

[calibanzwei]

I'm stingy - depending on damage done they might get repaired 3-4 times until I give up. Then they'll be kept and cut into strips and added to my firelighting (bushcraft) kit.

 

[Alembicbassman]

I'm stingy - depending on damage done they might get repaired 3-4 times until I give up. Then they'll be kept and cut into strips and added to my firelighting (bushcraft) kit.

Can't ever recall Ray Mears fiddling with inner tubes

 

[Crackle]

Or less manual ability. Please don't discount my lack of ability that requires any dexterity whatsoever. DIY, repairing inner tubes, drawing a straight line with a ruler, all these things are beyond me!! Cack-handed is an ability level I aspire to!!

I have a mate like that, I used to do all his bike repairs but he learnt to do punctures. It was infuriating watching him, especially if you were on a ride and waiting but he did learn. Still I can understand that one, though not being bothered too, I can't.

 

[byegad]

I always fix and I don't understand why anyone wouldn't. It seems such a waste to bin a tube just because there is a tiny hole in it. It can be repaired in a few minutes and I have never had a patch come off, even after fixing them at the roadside in the rain. Use Rema Tip Top, they are so much better and easier to use than anything you buy in the pound shop.

To anyone who thinks they can't repair a tube, take an old wheel and stick drawing pins through the tyre and then fix the punctures.

Then do the same but do it in the dark in a gale force wind with driving rain to simulate typical roadside conditions when you get a spate of punctures miles from anywhere.

Life is really too short for that. I carry a repair outfit for when I've used up the spare tubes, so far I've not used it in the 9 years since I stopped repairing at the roadside.

 

[Davidc]

I bin them because I've got a pile of repaired old tubes in the corner of my workshop, which I know I'll probably never use. No point adding to them.

If they're repaired why not use them/ take them out in place of new ones?

I collect punctured tubes, look at them occasionally, and then think, "Nah, better things to do."

I figure, if I collect them now while I have the money, if a day comes when I can't afford new ones, I'll have a nice stock of punctured ones to repair and use.

Just buy a £2.99 set of 6 self-adhesive Park Tools patches from most online bike shops. I've never used them at above 90 psi, never had one fail at 90 psi either.

Life is really too short for that. I carry a repair outfit for when I've used up the spare tubes, so far I've not used it in the 9 years since I stopped repairing at the roadside.

I'm the same. Beware - the solvent/ adhesive stuff goes hard if you leave it too long. having found a couple of tubes of it gone off in the past I took to rotating the glue yearly - Halfords used to sell it separately - new tube in the bike kit, previous bike one in the garage repair kit, previous garage one in the bin.

 

[HLaB]

This reminds me, I patched a spare tube last night, I'd better pump it up to see if the job was a good one.

Edit the job seems a good one the tube is still solid after 2hrs

8 hrs no deflation time for a scheduled one

 

[calibanzwei]

Can't ever recall Ray Mears fiddling with inner tubes

2m38s -
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkYm6qYJZZs

 

[Alembicbassman]

2m38s - http://www.youtube.c...h?v=KkYm6qYJZZs

Ahh, old Ray has more money, he uses old bits of tyre.

 

[henshaw11]

I fix:

a) I'm a tightwad when it comes to some things (even for a few quid..that's getting on for a pints-worth of beer !)
b) it's even more crap that winds up in landfill otherwise.

BTW - one thing with Park/adhesive patches - and probably why I've *once* had one fail - you mustn't roughen up the tube too much.

The last lot of unfixable tubes I had wound up variously as: wrapping under clamps on the bike; chainstay protectors; catapult-makings for a mate's Cubs pack. And I've still some left for plant-ties in the garden (tho' I've not pressed 'em into action as yet..)

 

[albion]

I usually repair the punctured tube and refit it as soon as I get home. That way the spare in my pack is unpatched and I know I can trust it.

Good idea.

I patched after my Sunday ride and it would indeed be sensible to refit it rather than 'box and hope'.

The only time I've had patches fail was using the self-sicking ones. In rough conditions they eventually peel off.

 

[marshmella]

, stick to the road and keep off towpaths with City Jets.
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I've had as many p@nctures on the road as on the towpath with these tyres , don't rate them that much, but yes, i repair the tube instead of binning it.

 

[biggs682]

i bin them

 

[albion]

I don't competition race.

It would feel a bit like throwing away a transistor radio because the batteries are dead.

I'm newly cycling again but am sure I had up to 10 patches on my old tubes.

 

[Tynan]

Blimey

I quite enjoy patching tubes, cup of tea, basin of warm water, it's hardly hard work with modern patches, I like the feeling of having repaired something and it means I always have two spares in the pannier

I tried the Park patches and found them useless, even under ideal conditions they didn't hold for more than a few days

I've certainly had tubes into double figures