Bad day... :(

[LocalLad]

It's that moment when you're done and you relax...and then hear a hiss from the pinch puncture, and your heart sinks...

 

[Accy cyclist]

Stand by the roadside, pull your skirt up slightly to reveal your ankle. The next fellow cyclist to come along will be dazzled by the sight and offer his assistance!

 

[Banjo]

Are you sure theres not a bit of glass or something stuck in the tyre thats puncturing the tube again?

 

[Dec66]

I feel your pain. You should have heard some of the language that I used, the other week, trying to get Conties off my Vision Team 30 rims. I've got Schwalbe Luganos on there now and they are not a whole lot better IMO. Swapping the Conties for the Luganos took just over 2 hours in total.
Hubster was shocked, even though I pointed out that I'm a forces brat. I was really narked off. Talk helped, Bontrager tyre levers were a Godsend (red ones).
I'm getting new tyres, ones with bloomin' kevlar in as I really don't fancy struggling with the Schwalbes in the rain, on the roadside.

Luganos are fecking awful in any case. The rolling resistance is atrocious.

Go Schwalbe, by all means, but just not those ones.

 

[MontyVeda]

Some combinations of rims and tyres are particularly difficult!

I have had combinations which were so easy that I could get tyres on and off without even using tyre levers, and other b**t*rd combinations that were a pig using 2 or 3 levers.

Seemingly all my MTB tyres have been really easy to remove without levers... is it the nobles that help?

 

[Saluki]

Luganos are fecking awful in any case. The rolling resistance is atrocious.

Go Schwalbe, by all means, but just not those ones.

I have found them to be OK but I am not any sort of elite rider by any stretch of the imagination so probably wouldn't notice any rolling resistance issues as I'm pretty slow to start with. Deffo going with those kevlar folding tyres from Paul's Cycles next time I am in Dereham. They recommend them highly for easy on and off-ness, apparently they roll well too. I am open to suggestions for new tyres for my roadie though. Always happy to learn new things.

 

[Dogtrousers]

A friend of mine has a funny story of offering to change a tube for someone to save them a trip to the LBS. "oh, it won't take me a minute" Several hours later everything had gone wrong, my friend had been baffled by deep section rims, caused a pinch flat, broken a tyre lever and generally looked a bit of a eejit.

No, really, it is a friend this time. Not saying I couldn't have done worse though!

 

[ColinJ]

Seemingly all my MTB tyres have been really easy to remove without levers... is it the nobles that help?

I hadn't thought about it, but yes, my MTB tyres have always been easy. I don't think it is the knobbly tread so much as the fact that the tyres are big and floppy without inflated inside them. Skinny 23C tyres are much stiffer.

Kevlar folders have been much easier to get on and off than the few cheap and nasty metal-beaded tyres that I have used. They don't even need to be that expensive - I have some Vittoria Rubino slicks on one bike which only cost £10 a tyre.

 

[Kumquat]

Are you sure theres not a bit of glass or something stuck in the tyre thats puncturing the tube again?

I don't think so, I removed a shared of glass from the tyre and had a quick look for anything else. Worth looking again next time I take it off though I suppose.

 

[Kumquat]

Stupid question, would it be possible to use flour instead of talc?

Otherwise I'll just go and buy some talc, but I was wondering

 

[ColinJ]

Stupid question, would it be possible to use flour instead of talc?

Otherwise I'll just go and buy some talc, but I was wondering

Why not just try it and tell us what the result is? (It is likely that none of us has tried it.)

***AWFUL PUN WARNING*** Make sure that you don't get the flour wet though or you could find putting the tyres on a really gruel-ling experience!

 

[Big Dave laaa]

If you use self raising flour you may not even need to use a pump

 

[steve50]

Flour = wheat based, Dry non slippy substance.
Talc= silicon content, slippery substance.

 

[ColinJ]

Flour = wheat based, Dry non slippy substance.
Talc= silicon content, slippery substance.

I think that's a big 'NO'!

 

[hennbell]

Flour = wheat based, Dry non slippy substance.
Talc= silicon content, slippery substance.

Also imagine the smell of the rotting flour the next time you have to take a tyre off.