Comments on: How to Patch a Tube, Part II

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:46:06 +0000

Ha ha! That was a great post! I laughed a few times, and at work! Not good… not good….

Sounds like me, the first 10 times I had to fix a flat. Only, I had all those types of problems using replacement tubes, not patches. My first time, getting the wheel off and knowing I’d forget how to get it back on… Messing up the CO2 canister and wasting it… Blowing up the tube when I didn’t have it fully inside the rim… Ug. I gave up and walked home in my road bike shoes, pushing my bike.

By: dumbass

dumbass — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:42:20 +0000

gotcha beat with the pulling shards or rattle snake fangs out with your teeth. Once I flatted and found two white looking shards in my tire, couldnt work them out so I bit them out with my teeth only to figure out that the white shards where the teeth of the dead ‘possum that I ran over about a 100 yards back. I worried about having to get rabies shots for 6 months

By: lynn e

lynn e — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:14:41 +0000

Thank you for removing the fear factor from the prospect of my 1st flat changing.

By: AustinSteve (aka Captain Steve)

AustinSteve (aka Captain Steve) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:04:51 +0000

Good thing I read this last night… Flat today, I was thoroughly prepared… But so very much to remember… I wonder what I forgot, or didn’t…

By: zeeeter

zeeeter — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:17:55 +0000

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By: The FORMER 560 Pound, Cyclist

The FORMER 560 Pound, Cyclist — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:29:55 +0000

LOL. Nicely done!!

By: TimD

TimD — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:55:16 +0000

My wife got me a set of these for Christmas after I spent over an hour trying to fix a flat, pinching the new tube trying to get the tyre back on.

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/var-tyre-levers-prod27539/

By: davidh-marinca

davidh-marinca — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:42:14 +0000

@AngieG Love the ‘unsupported TdF’ concept. If successful maybe we could carry it over to the Gran Fondo. Get Levi, and Patrick, and that Fatty Guy starting back in the pack with the rest of us.

By: Lonster

Lonster — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:57:37 +0000

I loaded up an old fiberglass tub on my old BOB trailer and after carefully reinforcing it with rebar filled it with water. I am now struggling on any climb over 5 ft in elevation but finding holes in tubes is extremely easy. The only other problem is my quads… they have quadrupled in size and I can only wear biking shorts now.

By: gregc

gregc — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:35:18 +0000

you forgot the part where you are feeling around the inside of your tire on the second flat (cause the first repair was punctured by a sharp object sticking int he tube that you forgot to look for in haste to be quick). I invariably always find it when it slashes my finger- and now there is blood all over the tube and the tire and the wheel etc- the aftermath looks rather like a stage of last years the tour de france!