Thank you to the fellow commuter this morning who helped me out by GIVING me a tube to fix my flat rear. I'm a fair-weather commuter so never really considered flatting on my rides would be in the cards. I was proven wrong today halfway to the office.
From now on I carry 2 extra tubes; one for myself and one for anyone I come across who needs help.
Originally Posted by sAFETY
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You can get a flat anywhere, anytime. A few months ago, I got a flat riding through the shiny-floored hallways of my office building at 6:30 in the morning (part of my gig as the official office wildman, you see). I find I get flats in bunches too. I'll get 3 in a week and then none for 6 months. Weird (and I do check tire surfaces of objects and debris). Hope you pay if forward to some poor person in need some day!
Good stuff. Ya I got a flat riding home a bit ago. Luckily I was only a 10 min walk away, but it was definitely still annoying. I bike commute everyday but don't carry tubes. Probably asking for it…
Good stuff. Ya I got a flat riding home a bit ago. Luckily I was only a 10 min walk away, but it was definitely still annoying. I bike commute everyday but don't carry tubes. Probably asking for it…
I am in the same boat, I've been lucky so far but I am probably due a bunch.
You should run tubeless.
:D
Wrong. Always.
Tube and glueless patches always.
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It's really no trouble to put a seat bag tool kit on a commuting bike - what holds you guys back from doing that?
Puuuuuuurrrrrre laziness :D
That and my commute never takes me far from buses if worst comes to worst
It's really no trouble to put a seat bag tool kit on a commuting bike - what holds you guys back from doing that?
Honestly, because I am an idiot. I did for like the first week then needed the tube fore something else and never replaced it. That was four years ago, including a period riding through the Olympic Village construction site.
That said, I am also never too far from a bus stop.
A rose thorn gave me a flat the other week. Tough little bugger actually made it through the sidewall just near the place it starts getting thinner.
Then there was the time I hadn't looked at my tires for months and thought someones was messing with me because I was having so many slow leaks. Then I looked at the tire and I had no sidewalls at all.
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I'm a fair-weather commuter so never really considered flatting on my rides would be in the cards.
what, flats are caused by rain???
Tube and glueless patches always.
this^^ except on my townie in a small town where I could just walk home easily
and you have to change your patch kit every year or so or the glue will be fucked when you come to use it
I rotate the old kits out of the seat bag into the shop where I try to do all my patching
btw I think it was the MEC kits that come with 2 tubes of glue good cuz an open tube is most likely to be dried out but the unopenned 2nd tube is most likely to still be liquid when you need it
I find I get flats in bunches too. I'll get 3 in a week and then none for 6 months. Weird (and I do check tire surfaces of objects and debris).
It is a well observed fact that flats occur in multiples of three.
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