http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Bad bike day en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:28:48 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221533 Tue, 31 May 2016 16:46:37 +0000 Big_Smoke 221533@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry to hear about your falls Claire.</p> <p>My one was just a joke, I visit the bike station for a a browse only to hear a loud hissing noise. Turns out it was a pinhole puncture from my rear wheel, in a bike shop of all sorts.</p> <p>Oh and I'm trying to sort out a stain on my good trousers that seems to be stuck for now. Bird droppings the lucky plucker. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221531 Tue, 31 May 2016 16:06:16 +0000 Claire 221531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@CJC Epic! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221392 Mon, 30 May 2016 10:20:34 +0000 CJC 221392@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Claire that sounds terrible. I hope you're ok!</p> <p>In February I had my chain get stuck somewhere in the drivetrain which locked the pedals and wheels and threw me off the bike (I was clipped in) as I went round the roundabout at the bottom of Broughton Street. </p> <p>I rolled down the hill to EBC and they rejoined the chain with a power-link thing and got on my way to work (very late!).</p> <p>Two weeks ago the chain snapped again as I moved off from the lights on North Bridge / Princes Street. I stopped outside the St James' centre and tried to rejoin the chain using a chain tool, only to find part of it was missing!</p> <p>I rolled/walked to EBC and got a new chain put on.</p> <p>The next day I got a puncture from a teeny tiny piece of glass that had got through the tyre.</p> <p>So over the last week I have replaced the chain, cassette, both tyres (for Conti gatorskins), all brake shoes &amp; pads, brake &amp; gear cables, and grip tape. </p> <p>It's nice to have done all the work myself, and it feels like a new bike! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221089 Thu, 26 May 2016 16:43:02 +0000 deckard112 221089@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Worth checking the actual wheel as well. I had recurring punctures due to a minute nick in the rim which was catching each new tube as I inserted it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221084 Thu, 26 May 2016 16:23:35 +0000 Claire 221084@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had a shocking bike day on Tuesday. 15 miles of stop-start round the houses riding in stressful road conditions (one near miss) and carrying heavily loaded panniers. Knocked bike over once by accident and resulting ground clatter scraped a large patch of paintwork off the frame. Sigh. Topped off my rubbish day by taking a tumble off the steed on Broughton Street (my fault), then getting peeled off the road by two terrified/embarrassed tourists and a concerned cyclist. Took tram home with tail between my legs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221073 Thu, 26 May 2016 16:03:48 +0000 wingpig 221073@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In February I got annoyed with a spate of punctures and duff tubes (including some cheapos from PlanetX which were not of even thickness all the way round which were exacerbating not-quite-round-nesses in the tyres) so put a strip of tyre-liner on every tyre and bought a new box of ten tubes of a reliable type, which I have not since had to dip into. I still have one somewhere from the similar box I bought about twelve years ago.<br /> I have crank-clicks on the sparebike but shall not bother addressing them until my crank extractor turns up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221065 Thu, 26 May 2016 15:34:11 +0000 The Boy 221065@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>re: tiny holes. I once had a spate of slow punctures which occurred just short Ratho Bridge travelling along the union canal - I was on holiday over the winter and was riding out that way every day to stay active.</p> <p>After the second puncture, i checked inside the tire and found nothing. After the third and fourth I had decided that the ice on the towpath or similar was the problem. When i woke up to find that my tire had deflated overnight I investigated further and eventually found *the* tiniest piece of glass in the tire - not protruding but actually embedded in the rubber. </p> <p>Seemed that the bumpy stretch of path by the bridge was just perfect to make it pop out far enough to make a tiiiiny hole in the tubes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221062 Thu, 26 May 2016 15:05:19 +0000 chdot 221062@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Start here!</p> <p><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=citycyclingedinburgh+clicking+noise" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=citycyclingedinburgh+clicking+noise</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221060 Thu, 26 May 2016 14:59:12 +0000 ivangrozni 221060@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don't get me started on clicks!!!</p> <p>Clicks have been haunting me for a month! :-D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221057 Thu, 26 May 2016 14:41:17 +0000 paolobr 221057@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Replaced tubes on two bikes today and need a spoke replaced on a third! Just need to check the clicking noise on the fourth... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221031 Thu, 26 May 2016 13:26:14 +0000 chdot 221031@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Do you have something like this?</p> <p><a href="http://www.marksandspencer.com/magnifying-glass-with-light/p/p22425139" rel="nofollow">http://www.marksandspencer.com/magnifying-glass-with-light/p/p22425139</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221030 Thu, 26 May 2016 13:24:35 +0000 chdot 221030@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I will take your advice"</p> <p>Personal choice! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221026 Thu, 26 May 2016 13:16:54 +0000 ivangrozni 221026@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Already done good sir! I spent five minutes eyeballing and feeling the tyre between each repair! Given it was right at the junction of two seams (one seam circumferential - the other axial) I'm a little suspicious. </p> <p>Rather than tempt the cycling gods once more, I will take your advice and check again when I get home. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221019 Thu, 26 May 2016 12:52:18 +0000 chdot 221019@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Only thing it could be is a faulty tube surely!"</p> <p><em>Does</em> happen, but so do tiny tiny bits of glass/thorn/metal. </p> <p>Suggest you take tyre off and turn inside out (if poss) and examine carefully! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221017 Thu, 26 May 2016 12:46:24 +0000 ivangrozni 221017@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>First was a snakebite - so my fault for not having the pressure high enough and for hitting a small pothole. </p> <p>It was the spare tube that really got me - a tiny pinhole at the seam of the (brand new) tube. My tyres had no evidence of offending thorns/needles/pins/glass. Only thing it could be is a faulty tube surely!</p> <p>Grrrrr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221013 Thu, 26 May 2016 12:36:49 +0000 Nelly 221013@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh dear, multi punctures due to snakebites, or glass/tacks?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16439#post-221006 Thu, 26 May 2016 11:57:35 +0000 ivangrozni 221006@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Multiple punctures this morning including a defective brand new tube which was only discovered after being installed (for shame - Continental!). </p> <p>Bad enough that my tinkering/maintenance on the bike has introduced a whole new symphony of phantom clicks - now this! </p> <p>Getting the train home today.</p> <p>Need my bike mojo back! </p> <p>Anyone else having the bike blues? </p>