Getting a puncture, what do you do.

[Shut Up Legs]

Feel a bit deflated...

Seriously, though: what the others said: replace tube now, repair later at your leisure.

 

[ACS]

Always a new tube.

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

Sit down, push my face into my palms and sob!

Sometimes i couple this with loud cries of "why?!?! Why?!?!? Why me?!?!". On the odd occasion drool can be seen from my bottom lip, depending on the weather, circumstances and distance from home.

 

[mickle]

If you're still getting punctures you're doing it wrong.

 

[Rob3rt]

Depending on the wheel,

Front: You stop, get off the bike undo the brake release, undo the quick release skewer, unscrew it to get it over the lawyers lips (you can pull it straight out if you have had the foresight to file the lawyers lips off), then you throw it in the bushes and await the team car. You then let the mechanic do his job!

Rear: Jam it in the small chainring and small cog, then stop and jump off the bike, undo the brake release, undo the QR, pull the rear mech backwards and down while lifting the bike up and to the side, the rear wheel will drop out, chuck it in the bushes and await the team car. You then let the mechanic do his job!

Once sorted, you command your domestiques to pace you back in! Later on back at the hotel, you tell the mechanic he best have some new tubs glued on by the morning (even though you know it will take much longer than the time allotted to do it) or his head is on the chopping block!

 

[Peteaud]

One calls ones chauffeur to bring that oily chap to mend black round thing whilst one sips a gin.

 

[screenman]

That is the sort of puncture slime would have stopped. On both my regular bikes I carry 2 tubes, the MTB having tubeless fitted would definitely need a tube when a puncture occurred.

I am in the camp that never repairs a inner tube, call me extravagant but I like to change my tubes on a regular basis any way.

 

[karl61]

do as I did. phone the wife to pick you up .....simple, but lazy!!

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I'm the odd one out. Repair at roadside using a traditional kit (glue, patches, chalk etc).

Having said that, I haven't had to do a roadside repair on my own bikes since getting puncture resistant tyres.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

New tube , throw the old one.

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Like most others, I put a new tube and repair when I get round to it, However, I sorted my shed a few weeks ago and I had 32 punctured tubes awaiting attention - a mix of MTB Hybrid and roadie tubes.

I now take a few into work periodically and repair them on my lunch break.

 

[Markymark]

Get the support car to sort it out.

 

[Ningishzidda]

Yip, I'm in that camp too; I tend to patch in batches too. When I used to patch individual tubes by the next time I needed it Id find the solvent had went hard.

Do you scrape the vulcanising solution tube against the rubber of the inner tube when you apply the solution? If you do, and a speck of rubber gets on the tip of the vulcanising solution tube and you replace the screwtop, the chemical process starts and the whole tube will solidify.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Adopt an unrealistically optimistic attitude and pray

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtbtC8N5yLY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[HLaB]

Do you scrape the vulcanising solution tube against the rubber of the inner tube when you apply the solution? If you do, and a speck of rubber gets on the tip of the vulcanising solution tube and you replace the screwtop, the chemical process starts and the whole tube will solidify.

I don't scrape it but thats interesting