A thorny issue

[lejogger]

When cycling back to the pub after footy last night, I felt tarmac touching rim when going over a speed hump - the tell-tale sign of a rear wheel puncture. Certainly wasn't completely flat so I made it to the establishment and took my wheel inside to sort it out.
I found the tiniest of tiny thorns poking through the inside of the tyre, so gave it to my pal to hold onto while I scoured the pub for tweezers or similar, with strict instructions to leave it alone.

On return, I found a sheepish looking pal holding my tyre which now had a broken thorn that I could now barely feel, and soon lost.

Now I put a new tube in and made it home... pumped the tyre back up to 100psi and made it to work this morning, but as I passed my bike when walking to the gents just before, without even touching the thing - so with what seemed like the power of sight or thought - the tyre literally blew out in front of me! I assume the ride in has forced the thorn out a little further and finally popped through the tube whilst sitting idle.

So after all that (b)rambling, I guess my question is 'how do I get the bugger out?' I've got some tweezers and a paperclip - that should do it shouldn't it?

 

[akb]

Hopefully it moved so you can tweezer it out some more? Maybe apply a bit of washing up liquid to assist in the lubrication to remove?

 

[Broadside]

Fully deflate the tyre or ideally take it off and then pinch both sides of the tyre wall together where the thorn is stuck, this should open the cut wide enough for you to fish the thorn out with the tweezers. You might end up making the hole a bit bigger but you have to get that little thorn out.

 

[lejogger]

So it looks like I've jumped the gun by blaming the thorn

There is a big slice in the tube, caused by the sharp edge of a spoke hole... I guess therefore the whole incident is down to user error when I changed the tubes in the pub last night and didn't make sure that the rim tape was straight... I wouldn't mind, but I was only drinking blackcurrent!

Another lesson learned.

 

[Jdratcliffe]

Another lesson learned.

Yes, Blackcurrent is deadly stick to beer glad you learnt your lesson