Originally Posted by
LarrySellerz
I’m a courier by trade, which translates to expertise in riding with traffic, and ability to ride broken components until they fail. The tire in question was the one from the “tire not seating” thread I made, and it made it a couple hundred more miles before failing. That’s why I decided it wasn’t worth trying to replace the tube, the new tube would explode too. If I could do it all over, I wouldn’t change a thing.
Oh, this is a consequence of not replacing a bad tire a couple of weeks ago. This loooong story doesn’t help your reputation.
Riding the bad tire might have saved you $2.50. But it cost you a $5 tube.
You might have been lucky to repair the rim. You might not be so lucky next time.
Rather than replace a $50 tire, you risked being stranded and possibly destroying a rim.
It would have been cheaper to fix things properly than “ride broken components until they fail” (which isn’t an “ability”; it’s just dumb.).
It’s bad decisions all the way down.