Originally Posted by
Excelsius
I'm curious if you guys patch your tubes. After two years of riding and accumulating tubes from flats, last week I was running out of new tubes, so I patched all 7 of them....
This is almost literally unbelievable to me on a couple of fronts. First, I probably have ten flats a month. Seven in two years is impossible here. One summer back when I was a compulsive record-keeper, I averaged about one every 30 miles, better than one per day. Lot of thorns here.
Second, I can't believe people won't ride patched tubes, or that there's any debate about it. I've been riding since college in the early '70s, certainly had a couple of hundred flats. I've had two patch failures in all that time, and one of those was my fault. There's no downside to patching, and who can afford six or eight bucks every time you get a puncture?