- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
what's better as a boot for patching a wrecked tyre: a piece of thick inner-tube, or a piece of smooth tyre?
boot for wrecked tyre
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User6179
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If you use a bit of old tyre for any length of time it will rub the tube and puncture it , if the hole is not to big I would use a few layers of duct tape ( power tape or gorilla tape)
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OP
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
it's for something to shove in the bottlecage toolbag in the event of a problem on the commute, not a permenant fix..
Yellow Saddle
Guru
- Location
- Loch side.
A boot must not be stretchable like a piece of tube. Tube never works because it will simply herniate and pop through the hole. You need something stiff. A piece of road bike tyre is good if you can get a thin enough piece but I just used oval-shaped pieces of HDPE (milk bottle) plastic. The fold nicely with the tyre and take on the roundness, but don't stretch against inflation. Tape it on with some duct tape, as suggested.
You need not really carry any either, as there's enough lying around next to the road in anyway.
You need not really carry any either, as there's enough lying around next to the road in anyway.
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OP
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
would this piece of 23mm tyre do on a 37mm tyre?
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pawl
Legendary Member
- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
I reckon so, although that looks a bit long.
This time last week we MacGyvered a boot using a gel wrapper, which was just stuffed into place in the tyre and held there by the tube pushing against it. Other candidates were a non adhesive wound dressing, still in its wrapper, from my first aid kit and a selection of road side and bin rubbish. This lasted long enough to complete 25 miles that day, then a further few the next, to a Decathlon store where a new tyre was bought. I got my trusty Opinel out and cut a section from the knackered tyre so I now have a proper boot in my kit.
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
Cardboard from a roadside fag packet shreds in about 5 miles. It got me within half a mile if home, though, so it was good enough.
A piece of crisp packet would do a better job - but you won't have scissors to cut it up. A fag packet can be torn. A condom wrapper would be excellent (foil, about the right size already) should you suffer a tyre failure in that sort of neighbourhood...
A piece of crisp packet would do a better job - but you won't have scissors to cut it up. A fag packet can be torn. A condom wrapper would be excellent (foil, about the right size already) should you suffer a tyre failure in that sort of neighbourhood...
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jefmcg
Guru
I've used an old 5iver (new one would be even better), but the boot that comes with the lezyne patch kit is excellent.
(I really shouldn't let my tyres get into that condition)
(I really shouldn't let my tyres get into that condition)
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
If the hole isn't too big I stick a puncture patch to the inside of the tyre, glueing seems to stop it 'herniating' out.
Smokin Joe
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
In an emergency a piece of handlebar tape will do the job.
Globalti
Legendary Member
Latex tubes will herniate through and tear open the tiniest hole due to their flexibility so I have occasionally extended the life of a tyre by patching from inside a hole that wouldn't matter with a butyl tube but through which you can actually see a latex tube beginning to bulge. That tyre always goes on the back wheel though.
wonderloaf
Veteran
I've used the gel wrapper trick to get me home, but of course you need to be carrying a gel in the first place and I know that they're not to everyone's liking.
