Your tire bursts and ...
02-22-12, 03:40 AM
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Your tire bursts and ...
The scenario ...
You are cruising briskly down a gradual hill, when all of a sudden your front tire bursts (pops with a loud bag). You manage to bring the bicycle to a safe halt, but your tire has a hole in it, and of course your tube is flat.
You've got tubes, tire levers, and a pump, so changing the tube won't be an issue ... but you've got a hole in your tire, and you need to boot it.
In your handlebar bag you've got the following items:
-- kleenex
-- ziplock bags
-- granola bars
-- a Topeak Alien multitool
-- a paper map
-- sunscreen in a tube
-- a wind jacket
What do you use to boot your tire??
You are cruising briskly down a gradual hill, when all of a sudden your front tire bursts (pops with a loud bag). You manage to bring the bicycle to a safe halt, but your tire has a hole in it, and of course your tube is flat.
You've got tubes, tire levers, and a pump, so changing the tube won't be an issue ... but you've got a hole in your tire, and you need to boot it.
In your handlebar bag you've got the following items:
-- kleenex
-- ziplock bags
-- granola bars
-- a Topeak Alien multitool
-- a paper map
-- sunscreen in a tube
-- a wind jacket
What do you use to boot your tire??
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02-22-12, 03:43 AM
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Granola wrapper.
02-22-12, 03:55 AM
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Australian money ($2 and under) are coins. So yes, there are a few dollars in coins rattling around in the handlebar bag.
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02-22-12, 05:05 AM
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Focus everyone. She told you what you have in your saddle bag. If the granola bar is wrapped, I'd use the wrapper, otherwise I'd fold the Ziplock bag a couple of times and use it.
02-22-12, 05:25 AM
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so many choices. agree on granola wrapper and perhaps folded ziplock
An alternative is to sacrifice your sunscreen and use the blade in the Alien to cut up the sscreen bottle. Careful now! Cut it up on a branch or a park bench or something - if you do it in your hands you're asking for trouble.
You also have the old tube, although you might want to keep this for a roadside patch job if you have a second flat.
An alternative is to sacrifice your sunscreen and use the blade in the Alien to cut up the sscreen bottle. Careful now! Cut it up on a branch or a park bench or something - if you do it in your hands you're asking for trouble.
You also have the old tube, although you might want to keep this for a roadside patch job if you have a second flat.
02-22-12, 06:14 AM
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02-22-12, 06:35 AM
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I'd use the granola bar wrapper, failing that the ziplock bags having used the knife in the Alien tool to cut away the zip itself.
On the subject of currency, in the UK anything less than Ł5 is a coin but on a longer ride I'd often carry a couple of US$1 bills with me, just in case.
On the subject of currency, in the UK anything less than Ł5 is a coin but on a longer ride I'd often carry a couple of US$1 bills with me, just in case.
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02-22-12, 06:59 AM
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This exact thing thing happend to me 97 miles from home recently.
I just rode a wheelie all the way home, but you sissies keep arguing about this.
I just rode a wheelie all the way home, but you sissies keep arguing about this.
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This makes most sense to me though you'll have to be careful of any sharp edges from the cutting process.
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02-22-12, 08:03 AM
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...make a boot from the blown out tube...two plys of tube...refill new tube to lowest pressure that will carry you. If touring...carry a tube and folding tire of course and you of all people know that.
If just out joy riding near home...or within 20 miles...call a friend to come pick you up.
Carry a cell phone.
If just out joy riding near home...or within 20 miles...call a friend to come pick you up.
Carry a cell phone.
02-22-12, 08:22 AM
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Nope. I never did find out what the culprit was, but I'm as sure as can be that it wasn't a pinch.... not after 70+ miles on that ride, and not after the several months of trouble-free riding I had on that nearly brand new tire. The most logical conclusion that I could come up with (with some help from BF) was that it was either a factory defect, or something had gotten lodged between the tire and brake and started a small tear on the sidewall which eventually lead to it exploding. That was 20-some-thousand miles ago and, other than the occasional puncture (it's been nearly a year since I had one of those, knock on wood....), haven't had a problem with my Contis since then, and the 4kS is still my favorite tire.
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Several folds of a piece of the paper map.
I've had one blow out at speed...24-25mph in a group ride, slightly down hill, pace line chugging along, BAM. Like a rifle shot. Tire came unseated from the bead somehow (probably user error) and the tube squeezed through. Got to the right quick, stopped ok, no damage to anything but my heart rate.
I've had one blow out at speed...24-25mph in a group ride, slightly down hill, pace line chugging along, BAM. Like a rifle shot. Tire came unseated from the bead somehow (probably user error) and the tube squeezed through. Got to the right quick, stopped ok, no damage to anything but my heart rate.
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