Originally Posted by
grayEZrider
Last summer I replaced a tube on a nearby kids MTB. (I don't charge anything for repairs to local bikes brought to my retired "Gone fishing" bike shop by neighbors). I put 60psi in it and set into the back of my truck. About five minutes later from inside the shop I hear BLAM!! Flat again. I had forgotten the rim strip. I just can't figure why it took so long to blow.
Forgot about that one. I replaced a steel fatbike wheel with an alloy wheel with all those cool holes in it . Pumping up the tire, the tube pushed out of the thirty six 3/4" holes like cousin Daisy filled out her shirts on Dukes of Hazzard. I was inside my house when I heard the kablam.
Being car guys, the Dukes would have known about PVC rim strips, but they were new to me. Well, I bought one, The rip in the tube was a starburst pattern, 3/4" across, and that was how I was able to patch it first from the inside of the tube, and then a second patch outside,