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Puncture on the way in this morning...

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  1. DaveC
    Member

    It had to happen at some point. At least it wasn't raining. I don't know if it was a pinch puncture or some debris on the road. I fixed the flat inner tube behind (old) BAE sys on the cycle path. Only one guy offered to help. I should have accepted as 38mm Snow tyres were a PITA to get on the rims, not hard but more a case or too big a tyre so it kept slipping off the other side. I don't think I fixed the flat as the tyre would not inflate despite me borrowing another pump. The wee one I have is pants and was so slow at inflating it was hard to tell the tube was still shot.

    I walked and jogged to The Bike Chain, who have vrey kindly kept it for the day to fix it!

    Only an hour later than I expected at work...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Bad luck DaveC - for these larger tyres, if you're not carrying a "full size" frame pump, it can be useful to have a cartridge inflator to get a lot of gas in it in a short (and easy) space of time, then top it up by hand if required.

    If you're interested, I've got a fully functioning but almost unused rapidflate one that has sat unused in my "bike bits" box for about 4 or 5 years, you'd be welcome to take it off my hands. May even have a few cartridges still around the pace (I tried to "dispose" of the cartridges last year at the christmas bit-swap, but nobody had a compatible inflator). The reason I don't use it is that I found it wasn't useful for the high pressure 23/25 tyres I have, the pressure inside the tyre quickly exceeds that left in the cartridge, making it of limited use. It's quicker to do by hand. However it's perfect for the wider, lower-pressure, higher-volume tyres like you have.

    Let me know.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. DaveC
    Member

    I think I'll just get a better mini track pump like on my Dawes... and I think I'll just pop the road tyres on, much easier to put tyres on than those oversize Snow Tyres...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. Smudge
    Member

    The faeries have been busy recently then! I rolled the folder out of the garage only to find a flat rear tyre this morning, resulting in q quick decant of luggage from daysack to pannier and the snow studded tourer being pressed into service... of course the short delay meant I was *really* tight for time to make the train, good job it's downhill, but my legs were still screaming by the time i got to the platform! (and met the train :-))

    Have to say, I use presta valves where I have to but the tourer is deliberately on schraeders partly because it's easier to get a good pump/valve seal when nothing is going your way and partly because you can generally get access to a car pump/airline more readily than a track pump when away from home.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. kaputnik
    Moderator

    oh well. Still trying to get "rid" of the inflator! Can't give the things away it would seem.

    Any interested parties?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. DaveC
    Member

    Hmm wonder if its worth drilling out the Alexrims on the Cotic?

    Looking at cycle shops near Crew Toll I must have passed 100 yds from The Edinburgh Bicycle Company. Had I known I might have enquired about puncture repair services...

    It wasn't really the pucture but the fact I was on the wet grass off the tarmac trying to get the tyres on not very successfully... oh and trying to avoid soggy doggy poos in the grass [grrrrr]...

    On a brighter side, jogging through the park next to the Botanic Gardens there was a lovely old lady with a grabber picking up litter. She said she picks litter up every day. I congratulated her on her comunity spirit!!

    Many thanks kaputnic, but I would only end up in the middle of nowhere without a refill...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. Nelly
    Member

    @kaputnik, gas is all I carry - including road bike 23's which I have at 120ish - when I open the valve, tyre goes rock hard in a second !

    May be that your inflator or cartridges might be malfunctioning?

    Posted 13 years ago #

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