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Multiple punctures this morning including a defective brand new tube which was only discovered after being installed (for shame - Continental!).
Bad enough that my tinkering/maintenance on the bike has introduced a whole new symphony of phantom clicks - now this!
Getting the train home today.
Need my bike mojo back!
Anyone else having the bike blues?
Oh dear, multi punctures due to snakebites, or glass/tacks??
First was a snakebite - so my fault for not having the pressure high enough and for hitting a small pothole.
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!
Grrrrr
"Only thing it could be is a faulty tube surely!"
Does happen, but so do tiny tiny bits of glass/thorn/metal.
Suggest you take tyre off and turn inside out (if poss) and examine carefully!
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.
Rather than tempt the cycling gods once more, I will take your advice and check again when I get home.
"I will take your advice"
Personal choice!
Do you have something like this?
http://www.marksandspencer.com/magnifying-glass-with-light/p/p22425139
Replaced tubes on two bikes today and need a spoke replaced on a third! Just need to check the clicking noise on the fourth...
Don't get me started on clicks!!!
Clicks have been haunting me for a month! :-D
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have crank-clicks on the sparebike but shall not bother addressing them until my crank extractor turns up.
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.
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.
@Claire that sounds terrible. I hope you're ok!
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.
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!).
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!
I rolled/walked to EBC and got a new chain put on.
The next day I got a puncture from a teeny tiny piece of glass that had got through the tyre.
So over the last week I have replaced the chain, cassette, both tyres (for Conti gatorskins), all brake shoes & pads, brake & gear cables, and grip tape.
It's nice to have done all the work myself, and it feels like a new bike!
@CJC Epic!
Sorry to hear about your falls Claire.
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.
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.
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