Originally Posted by
ksryder
I'm lazy and tubes are cheap. Replace the tube with a spare on the roadside, throw it away when I get home.
This is what I used to do, but I also never got more than one or two flats per month and tubes could be had cheaply in bulk when on sale. Like a few bucks per tube. So I'd toss the old tube in the nearest trash rather than try to bring it home. If the new replacement also flatted (which I recall happening in 2008) I'd patch it.
Going on two years now without a single flat on tubeless. To me it's a solved problem.
I have a friend I used to ride with who would insist on taking my old tubes home and patching them. As far as I know he has an entire garage worth of old tubes and 99% threadbare tires. Not that he ever uses or needs any of them.