Roadhump
Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted
- Location
- The flatlands of South West Lancs
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.
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.