How many punctures on one ride?

[Roadhump]

In 15 years of cycling (I admit I had an 8 year gap so you could call it y years) I had had 4 punctures, until today when I did a 30 mile ride and had another 2. Equals half of my previous total in a couple of hours!!

The first was a thorn through my front armadillo tyre, which I fixed on the roadside, with the help of a fellow cyclist who very kindly stopped to assist. For some unknown reason I used a patch instead of the spare tube I was also carrying. I then cycled about a mile back on myself to a good cycle shop where the staff let me use a floor pump to get the pressure up to 100 psi so I could complete my planned ride without worrying too much about pinch flats.

I should have worried about glass shards though because 10 miles later, I heard a loud snap and hiss, and my front tyre deflated in a few seconds. "Oh dear, how frightfully unfortunate", I uttered, thinking the patch might have blown out. But, when I inspected it, I found a large glass shard embedded in my tyre which had made a large hole in the tube. Well cheesed off by now, I used the spare tube and rode home carefully trying to avoid anything that look like it could have a remotely sharp edge.

A mate once told me he had 6 punctures in one ride, which is the total of all mine, but just wondering how many other people have had on a single trip.

 

[Dan B]

3 on a dunwich dynamo. 4 over the whole weekend, counting one the previous night on the fnrttc

I threw that tyre away shortly afterwards and never again have used the same tyre both on road and on turbo trainer

 

[alecstilleyedye]

a clubmate had 4 in one ride once; the cause was some rogue rim tape. same poor chap also had a split rear rim today, necessitating an early exit from the club run…

 

[andrew_s]

I had 2 at once on one occasion, without any obvious cause like a patch of broken glass. I stopped because the back tyre was flat, changed the tube, and had just picked up the bike to carry on my ride when I realised I could hear a hissing from the front wheel.
Another time I hit a broken bottle or something that took out both tyres. It should really have been two new tyres, but I only had one, so I fitted that and cut a section out of the worst tyre to boot the other (about a 1.5 inch cut). This was on the dual carriageway outside Nice airport. The boot lasted for the ride back home from Heathrow.

Then there's the time I had 4 blowouts and ended up riding the last 10 miles home on a flat tyre. That was because I'd bought a cheap tyre from a bike shop that was closing down, and it didn't like modern rims - the rim hook was cutting through above the tyre bead by sections.