Expensive ride home

[goo_mason]

A mile and a half into the trip home tonight there's a loud hiss-hiss-hiss as my rear punctures. No problem - I pull up, get off the road onto the grass by the off-road cycle path and set-to the repair.

Hmmm. No sign of what's done the damage, but the back tyre is badly slashed in a few places and there are now some other new gaping holes right through to the inner lining. Could have been something going through one of those vulnerable spots. Remove wheel & pull out tube, then try to inflate to find the hole. Trouble getting Road Morph pump to work, so just replace with the spare tube. Put everything back together and try pump again. Still no joy so I pull out my CO2 inflator. Up goes the tyre, and immediately it goes right back down again. Great - the spare is holed too :-(

Ended up walking a mile back to Halfords at Hermiston Gait, where I bought a new inner tube and a Conti Ultra Gatorskin tyre as I didn't think my old Stelvio would withstand anything else even slightly sharp on the road. They let me bring the bike in to replace the tyre & tube indoors and they let me use their track pump - very kind of them. I also bought a couple of CO2 cartridges just in case of any further mishaps on the way home.

Total cost was just over £30. It would have been cheaper to get home by bus today, but that wouldn't have been any fun!

 

[magnatom]

That's a shame Goo. Terrible shame.

Tee hee. That's what you get for being a moderator.

Wait a minute ,I don't remember goo wearing glasses, I hope this print is too small for him to read. I suppose he is old, I should be ok......

 

[gaz]

I had a puncture last night, and i forgot my pump. every bike shop was closed.
Rang my dad for a pick up. he came and got me. put the bike in the boot. Did a uey and the car stalled and wouldn't start again... we both looked at each other and said BOLLOCKS. it started on the next try

 

[fossyant]

Halfords actually had some Conti's ...blimey...........

 

[simonsimon]

I had a horribly expensive puncture just the other week. Cycling to the station when *pop*, sudden blow out. As I'm barely a mile from home I walk back thinking to pick up my spare bike. Only the spare hasn't been used in a year and the steering's seized. Phone work and arrange to take the day out of my annual leave to get things sorted.

Drive down to the lbs, pick up a couple of tubes and head home. It's only when I go to fit the new tube that I realise the side wall of the tyre is wrecked at the seam.

Jump back in the car, head back down to the lbs only this time there's no parking spaces left anywhere near. What the hell, I'm only going to be a few minutes so I park on the yellow line outside. Purchase the tyre and walk out to the car to find a traffic warden pushing buttons on his cursed box. There's no ticket on the windscreen so I jump in, start up and drive off with a big smile on my face, thinking I've outfoxed the nazi swine

Couple of days later, there's a ticket in the post

So, 2 tubes for £10, tyre for £30, parking ticket for £50 plus a day out of my annual leave. Could this be the most expensive puncture evaaahhh ?

 

[goo_mason]

I had a horribly expensive puncture just the other week. Cycling to the station when *pop*, sudden blow out. As I'm barely a mile from home I walk back thinking to pick up my spare bike. Only the spare hasn't been used in a year and the steering's seized. Phone work and arrange to take the day out of my annual leave to get things sorted.

Drive down to the lbs, pick up a couple of tubes and head home. It's only when I go to fit the new tube that I realise the side wall of the tyre is wrecked at the seam.

Jump back in the car, head back down to the lbs only this time there's no parking spaces left anywhere near. What the hell, I'm only going to be a few minutes so I park on the yellow line outside. Purchase the tyre and walk out to the car to find a traffic warden pushing buttons on his cursed box. There's no ticket on the windscreen so I jump in, start up and drive off with a big smile on my face, thinking I've outfoxed the nazi swine

Couple of days later, there's a ticket in the post

So, 2 tubes for £10, tyre for £30, parking ticket for £50 plus a day out of my annual leave. Could this be the most expensive puncture evaaahhh ?

Certainly beats mine

 

[goo_mason]

That's a shame Goo. Terrible shame.

Tee hee. That's what you get for being a moderator.

Wait a minute ,I don't remember goo wearing glasses, I hope this print is too small for him to read. I suppose he is old, I should be ok......

I may be old, but I still have 20/20 vision. (Surprising, really - given that I should be blind and have hairy palms according to the name motorists call me )

 

[hackbike 666]

I had one of those days (more than once) where the spare pumps didn't work and stuff like that and ended up walking almost three miles home with the bike.

It always was a bit of a pain though after a long day and early start...then again I didn't particulary want a p*nct*r* on the way to work either.

Ironically the van that picked me up from the airport had a p*nct*r* on the way from the airport but we made it ok without being killed.

Looks like there is no avoiding the p*nct*r* fairy....I hope they put greentyres on the jumbo jet(s) im just about to fly back on.(or perhaps not)