Day before yesterday had a flat out on the road on a tire that looked totally 100% good, and has been reliable. About 7 miles from home, and all I found in the tread were a couple of very small, almost imperceptible cuts in the tread with nothing to extract.
The old bottle of Stan's liquid latex was in the backpack and a very old spare. No glue, no tape.
Long story short = The liquid latex did not work, even with a 2nd larger shot of liquid; but the old tubular held out til home, but went flat soon thereafter.
I will post mortem this flat tire rather than just pitch it, to find what took it out so catastrophically and irreparably.
Luckily my wakeup call to be prepared with better spare and tape to hold it in place. Luckily I had a bunch of CO2 cartridges as I kept trying the Stan's, before going to spare tire.
Remember, after so many miles, those trusty old tires, ain't so trusty.
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