Changing a flat mid ride - poll

Replacing Tube ... What method do you use ?

  • Unbead one side and carefully slip new tube in.

    Votes: 47 49.0%
  • Fully remove tyre and tube

    Votes: 45 46.9%
  • Wait on Support Car

    Votes: 2 2.1%
  • Call Home Rescue

    Votes: 1 1.0%
  • Phone a Taxi

    Votes: 1 1.0%

  • Total voters
    96
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gaz

Cycle Camera TV
Why would you take the tyre all the way off :S
 
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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 ;)
 
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Peteaud

Veteran
Wait for my support

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Sittingduck

Legendary Member
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 :thumbsup:
 

snorri

Legendary Member
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!^_^
 

gaz

Cycle Camera TV
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 ;)
 

HLaB

Marie Attoinette Fan
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

Senior Member
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

Legendary Member
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.
 
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