punkypossum
Donut Devil
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Hope that's not an indication of future p-incidents!!! Got to work today, parked the bike up, noticed some green slime on my seatstays and thought I must have punctured...Tyre was still nice and firm tho. Dopey me then has a look, finds nice big chunk of glass stuck in tyre and decides to remove it, followed by spinning the tyre to make the slime seal it again. Unfortunately, once removed, the hole was too big for it to reseal, so it went psssssss and flattened itself completely. Should have left it in and probably would have got home... Did not have time to fix it before work, so had this lovely job to do at 10pm tonight (unfortunately there were no cyclist around to do my damsel in distress act and get them to help). And it was the backwheel and I'm so cr@p at fixing punctures... Took me 30 minutes and that was with 2 assistants (used mainly to hold the bike when necessary) The security guard being one of them made it worse as I felt under pressure with him staring at my amateur attempts . Fortunately puddleglum provided me with a track pump, otherwise I would have spent another 30 minutes trying to get air in the tyre with my mini-pump.
Not fun - I'm seriously contemplating spending a day just taking the wheels out, tyres off etc - just to get the practice in. Don't want to have to spend 30mins every time, plus there might not always be an assistant...
Alternative is to fit some marathon + I suppose and hope for the best...
Not fun - I'm seriously contemplating spending a day just taking the wheels out, tyres off etc - just to get the practice in. Don't want to have to spend 30mins every time, plus there might not always be an assistant...
Alternative is to fit some marathon + I suppose and hope for the best...