Changing a flat mid ride - poll

[GrumpyGregry]

Depends on the ride. Depends on the tyre.

 

[gaz]

Why would you take the tyre all the way off :S

 

[400bhp]

Depends on the ride. Depends on the tyre.

Sit on the fence why don't you.

 

[Deleted member 20519]

Why would you take the tyre all the way off :S

So that you can run your hand around the inside of the tyre to check for debris that may have burst your tube, good for checking the rim tape too to make sure that a spoke didn't burst your wheel

 

[Peteaud]

Wait for my support

 

[derrick]

Always find it easier to take the whole tyre of.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The success of a CC poll is judged (by me) entirely on whether it generates a nice curve. I'm not holding out much hope for this one since the answer is so obviously 'B' that only an idiot would vote any other way.

A!

 

[Sittingduck]

So that you can run your hand around the inside of the tyre to check for debris that may have burst your tube, good for checking the rim tape too to make sure that a spoke didn't burst your wheel

...which you can still do, with one side of the tyre off the rim

 

[snorri]

Thinking back, of the last four puncture victims I have offered to assist. One had no pump, another was having difficulty getting the back wheel on and the other two were just waiting for Home Rescue!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Sit on the fence why don't you.

Ok.

On road, wire beads, A
On road, kevlar bead, B
On road, regardless of bead, pouring rain, more than halfway home, ring wife which I think = D
Off road, B

 

[gaz]

So that you can run your hand around the inside of the tyre to check for debris that may have burst your tube, good for checking the rim tape too to make sure that a spoke didn't burst your wheel

I can do both of those without taking the tyre off

 

[Deleted member 20519]

I can do both of those without taking the tyre off

I like to be thorough

 

[HLaB]

A & B for me depending upon the circumstances, like how I p'tured (for me its pretty easy to tell a snakebite), which tyre, what I'm doing, weather etc. I tend to do it in stages take half the tyre of first and if I don't find the p'ture or don't think it a front snakebite take it all off (OOer )

 

[Pauluk]

I've had at least two punctures this year where I couldn't find the sharp (thorns I think) until I turned the tyre almost inside out at the point of the puncture. The thorns were very well disguised and were laying flat along the inside of the tyre lining. I really don't think I would have found them if I hadn't taken the tyre off the rim.

 

[the_mikey]

Leaving the tyre on the rim while changing the tube saves little, I prefer to remove the tyre and visually check it, and once satisfied I can get on with the process of fitting a new tube and re-fitting the tyre.