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Puncture
Posted by Llyn Green on 2/8/2024, 19:44:45
Went to use my wheel-barrow last week and found that I had a puncture. Dropped the wheel out and found it had an inner-tube, and of course, I had no puncture repair kit. I’ve never had one for years and wondered if they still made them.
We were over at Silverlink and I called into the Halford’s unit.
The bike department is about the size of a football field, with every shape and size of bike. I eventually found my little repair kit, and it looked just like I remembered it, a long thin box with patches and an adhesive tube, but now it’s made of plastic and a lot dearer.
When I took it to the pay-point, which is a sort of repair centre. The guys behind the counter were repairing all these super looking bikes with their fancy gear changers and disc-brakes.
“Have you ever repaired an inner-tube puncture before?”, this young guy asked. “Son, I was repairing punctures over 70 years ago”, I replied.
“Have you ever repaired an inner-tube puncture without a repair kit?”, I asked him. He looked at me as if I was mad.
I bet Allan knows the trick we used as kids to get us home.
Re: Puncture. Llyn
Posted by Allan Campbell on 2/8/2024, 23:59:58, in reply to "Puncture"
Thank goodness I don’t think that I was never stuck with a puncture when young.
Move on to around 2004 when I bought my first and only full “susser” I had many punctures because I could then go really off road.
Some places were very hard on tyres but never had a split tyre or puncture until I went off road off the A61 near Wormald Green.
I left the A61 onto a track going West and punctured within 50 yards, fixed it and got another 5 yards, puncture, fixed that the another few yards puncture.
It ended up that I used up 2 puncture outfits in about 150 yards.
Also used up my spare tube. Two kits, one with the glue the other just patches. I seem to remember using about 10 to 12 patches some of the patches had to cover 2 or 3 holes.
A farmer had cut or trimmer a Hawthorn hedge and the thorns were all along the track.
I carried the bike about 500 yards until I was well clear of the area and headed for home 10 miles away in Knaresborough.
When we were near Amsterdam near the Airport road into the city centre but never got there as I hit a bit of a bump and the rear wheel rim split for about 6 inches and it punctured the tube. 2 Mile walk back to the caravan we caught the ferry back to the U.K. 2 days later.
But to answer the question fixing a puncture without a repair kit.
All you are trying to do is a get home job, it is possible to stick grass into the tyre casing or another sort of packing.
However that usually means a long walk, if you try to ride the bike you could ruin the wheel rim. If it’s the front wheel you probably couldn’t ride anyway, no control but then you swap the tubes over.
I have on one occasion had to push the back home about 5 miles trip but because of a mechanical. I seem to remember running a lot of the way and hopping on to free wheel when I could. Much younger then!
Not long after the multiple puncture thing they brought out SLIME.
You remove the valve and put this fluid bright green into the inner tube. It seals any small punctures and you can often see thus green stuff on your tyre.
You repair the tube as normal after cleaning off the SLIME and away you go again. I had a tube with this SLIME in it for over 5 years before replacing the tube and that was because the SLIME was blocking up the valve itself. Changing the valve working bit could work.
I always ( except once) carry a puncture kit and leavers plus pump.
The once is another story.
Allan C.
Re: Puncture. Llyn
Posted by Llyn Green on 3/8/2024, 19:44:04, in reply to "Re: Puncture. Llyn"
I'm afraid we're living in a different time-zone Allan.
The era I'm talking about is the early 1950's.
"Slime", hadn't been invented, except in duck-ponds, and I'm not even sure about grass either. If it had it would probably have been rationed anyway.
I though you would have known about the shoe-lace trick.
A tight knot with the lace either side of the hole in the inner-tube. Tyre back on, inflate and off you go.
You may have to re-inflate a couple of times, but it was better than walking. Surprisingly, you couldn't feel the gap, the tyre not only expanded width-ways, but also length-ways too.
The only way it wouldn't work, was if the puncture was too near the valve.
Re: Puncture. Llyn
Posted by Allan Campbell on 3/8/2024, 22:07:42, in reply to "Re: Puncture. Llyn"
I was thinking of the worst case scenario and that would be when MTBing.
As far as I remember never got stuck with a puncture or if I did it was very close to home or families house.
Using your shoe laces or anything else did not occur as far as I remember and not heard of it until now. Until you or your pals had heard of it we would never have known.
None of us were members of a cycling club who would probably know of it.
I would think that I always carried a puncture outfit. I remember the saddle bag that I used and carried some tools in it. The puncture outfit would be in the end pockets.
I travelled from near Mill Lane to Clegga nearly every day for 3 years and before that to near the Newtown School for 2 Years.
These days cycling shoes tend not to have laces, straps and locking systems. The cheaper end do have laces.
Once I stared to go a fair distance from home or campsite I made sure that I had a puncture outfit and a spare tube. I have in the South of France carry 2 spare tubes as the rocks could be quite sharp and more so if traveling at speed downhill.
I did carry tyre wall patches for some years but never needed them.
Back in the 50’s maybe tyres and tubes were more robust and Road in better condition as less traffic.
These days everything is made to have as little weight as possible.
The trend today for tyres and tube is to dispense with the tubes and use tubeless tyres like cars.
To use these you have special wheel rims I understand and sealant to fit them. There is special puncture repair kits for them if hole too big.
A lot of cyclists do not carry a pump but have Co2 cartridges.
I stick to tyres and tubes and carry a pump.
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