Pale Rider
Legendary Member
A puncture came close to ending the ride for one of my Sunday morning group yesterday.
She had a spare tube, but the presta valve would not go all the way through the hole in the rim.
Pushing hard, we could get less than a cm showing.
There was insufficient valve sticking through for her clip-on pump to grip.
My pump - which has a threaded hose connector - just managed to do the job.
Both tubes had threaded metal valves, but the valve on the spare tube must have been slightly bigger.
The bike, for what it's worth, is a Cannondale Quick with a paired spoke pattern - she is very light.
Simple enough job to ream the rim hole a little, but as you may imagine, none of us were carrying a suitable tool.
Anyone come across this problem before?
She had a spare tube, but the presta valve would not go all the way through the hole in the rim.
Pushing hard, we could get less than a cm showing.
There was insufficient valve sticking through for her clip-on pump to grip.
My pump - which has a threaded hose connector - just managed to do the job.
Both tubes had threaded metal valves, but the valve on the spare tube must have been slightly bigger.
The bike, for what it's worth, is a Cannondale Quick with a paired spoke pattern - she is very light.
Simple enough job to ream the rim hole a little, but as you may imagine, none of us were carrying a suitable tool.
Anyone come across this problem before?