Replace then patch old tube for future replacing.
It's not a proper inner tube if it has less than 6 patches.
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mending punctures?
(38 posts)- Started 11 years ago by SRD
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Posted 11 years ago #
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I mend them but not right away, I wait till I have a few and patch in a batch.
Eventually you get something you can't patch easily.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I like to patch (and used to think I was half-way competent with it), but if I get a puncture between nursery and work, I am likely to take it to bike shop and have tube replaced, so I can pick it up again at the end of the day and not miss 'collection time.'
Posted 11 years ago # -
It's not a proper inner tube if it has less than 6 patches.
A tube is for life, not just for Christmas
Posted 11 years ago # -
As I'm still working my way through the ten-pack of inner tubes I bought in 2003 (still two left, not including the one I donated to Wilmingtron in May last year in case his paper-thin tyres punctured again on his rush home) I currently just replace tubes and leave the punctured one dangling somewhere in the spare room in the hope that one day I'll eventually get round to collecting all the old tubes from their various locations and patching them all in a big burst.
Posted 11 years ago # -
"patching them all in a big burst"
Doesn't sound like a very effective technique if you ask me!
Posted 11 years ago # -
That's what the really big patches in Tiptop repair kits are for. :-)
that nostalgia-kick is less keenly felt when it's dark, windy, 3 degrees below and hailing.
This happened to me once when cycling to work. It was winter and blowing a gale, and the nearest doorway for shelter was the BT computer centre on Craiglockhart Avenue. Whose doorway doesn't have a step to sit on. My fingers were numb, and my patch didn't stick because it got sleet in it. I have a feeling I walked all the way to work with a flat tyre, and mended the tube at lunchtime.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I fix.
But I've just counted the pile - 12.
Not all punctured by me.
Does include the two I damaged by failing to find that tiny bit of thorn poking through.
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