Repair or replace
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cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Yes taking the wheel off is a lot easier, i am taking around 5 minutes now form taking the wheel off to being ready to roll.
I am of the repair the inner tube clan although i am ..
1, tight
2, broke most of the time
I am of the repair the inner tube clan although i am ..
1, tight
2, broke most of the time
cloggsy
Boardmanist
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Yes taking the wheel off is a lot easier, i am taking around 5 minutes now form taking the wheel off to being ready to roll.
I am of the repair the inner tube clan although i am ..
1, tight
2, broke most of the time
I'd repair the tube, then I am a tight Yorkshireman
If you shop around you can get some mega deals on inner tubes...
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
As said you'll get a new tube cheaper than £5 but I'd be inclined to patch.
daSmirnov
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Horsham, UK
I don't bother patching any more, maybe I will on the mountain bike. But at higher pressures they don't seem to last.
It's easier taking the wheel off and doing it, just a couple of minutes. You just need to shift down to the small cog on the back, and figure out how to put the back wheel on. Nowadays its pretty simple, with my Activator it's a wee bit more complicated as the derailleur is also held on by the wheel axle, d'oh!
It's easier taking the wheel off and doing it, just a couple of minutes. You just need to shift down to the small cog on the back, and figure out how to put the back wheel on. Nowadays its pretty simple, with my Activator it's a wee bit more complicated as the derailleur is also held on by the wheel axle, d'oh!
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Touch wood, for me they seem to be both low pressure and high pressure tubes.
Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
It really doesn't take so very much longer to fix the puncture as it does to change a tube. An extra 10 minutes out of your life for a saving of about £3.00 At that rate you're working for £18 quid an hour which is pretty good. Throwing something away for the sake of a 10p patch and 10 minutes just seems unnecessarily profligate at a time when the whole world is in the crap for being greedy and wasteful. This whole throwing away tubes after the first punture just goes against the grain with me. I hate to sound preach but every time I hear about someone doing it I get the same sort of feeling as when my teeth scrape down a wooden lolly stick or nails on a blackboard.
I can only urge you to reconsider your actions.
jdtate101
Ex-Fatman
- Location
- Boring Birmingham
No, never will be. As others have said the high pressure on road tyres (110PSI+) can make getting them to stick permanently a problem. If they doo take, as the rubber sealant gets agitated by road pressure it can cause a slow leakage. I always replace now. Best thing you an do is get yourself some nice puncture resistant tyres, such as the GP4000S I run. Nothing is 100%, but they do cut down on the punctures significantly.
That being said I do carry patches and rubber too, incase I have multiples. Patches are good enough to get you home.
Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
I cannot ever remember having a patch fail me. At least not one I put on. I mean seeing as you have to do most of the work anyway just to change a tube it really makes no sense not to spend the extra 10 mins to fix the puncture.
With more people taking up cycling all over the world there is going to be an increasing demand on resourses like rubber. With people throwing away rather than fixing will these reserves of rubber be able to stretch.
