How fast can you fix a p**nct**e?

[swee'pea99]

Got my second in a week y'day...getting very experienced at them. Timed this morning's at 7 minutes, start to finish, from pumping up to locate the hole to screwing on the valve cap. And that's with rubber solution & old-style patches. With one o' they self-adhesive jobbies I reckon I could beat 5 minutes now. Anyone beat that?

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Just change the innertube and you'll knock five minutes off that.

 

[monnet]

Just change the innertube and you'll knock five minutes off that.

That's the way I do it.

 

[Joe24]

Fast. I can get the wheel off quick. Get the tyre off with one tyre lever so that saves time. Then its just a case of getting the old tube out and putting a new one in. The old tube gets stuffed back into the saddle bag and its just a case of pumping it up, putting it back in and going.
No need to mess about with patches.

 

[HJ]

I have so little practice, I usually have difficulty remembering where to start, maybe I should go back to cr*p tyres...

 

[hubgearfreak]

if it isn't worth 5 minutes of your time to fix a £4 tube are you all on £50/hr?

 

[Dave5N]

if it isn't worth 5 minutes of your time to fix a £4 tube are you all on £50/hr?

Good God no!

What do you take us for?

Tradesmen?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

if it isn't worth 5 minutes of your time to fix a £4 tube are you all on £50/hr?

I replace the tube at the roadside, then fix the punctured one later in the comfort of my living room.

 

[rich p]

I replace the tube at the roadside, then fix the punctured one later in the comfort of my living room.

Exactly!

 

[Aperitif]

I have so little practice, I usually have difficulty remembering where to start, maybe I should go back to cr*p tyres...

 

[hubgearfreak]

I replace the tube at the roadside, then fix the punctured one later in the comfort of my living room.

not me. mrs. hgf wouldn't allow it, and i think that the pressure helps the glue seal the patch properly

 

[Alan Frame]

I have so little practice, I usually have difficulty remembering where to start, maybe I should go back to cr*p tyres...

Talk about tempting fate !

 

[yenrod]

Yes but the deal is: how do you fix the puncture - with the tube slightly inflated or totally de-flated ???????????????

Though I know I did one once pretty quick as it was round the corner from the chaingang - prior to me getting there... !

 

[fossyant]

Deflated - ish - let the glue go off then apply the patch...in the comfort of the garage - can't be bothered these days doing it on the road... flat, tube out, check tyre, new tube in, pump up and off.... fix the tube if needed when I get back home - usually carry two tubes and a kit anyway.........

Three repairs and it's in the bin.........

 

[hubgearfreak]

Three repairs and it's in the bin.........

thirty three, maybe

i find that patches don't cope so well when half straddling earlier patches - so then it's the bin, but if there's room for one more patch, it's still a goer as far as i'm concerned.