How's this for a p**cture???

[Panter]

Through the tyre, both sides of the inner tube and through the rim tape

 

[DaleB]

How did that happen?

 

[Plax]

Very impressive. Looks like somebody has mistaken your tyre for a vampire and staked it to death.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Not bad, but you really should use a patch to repair it. The wooden plug will be bumpy.

 

[potsy]

Had you just been drinking a pint of Strongbow

 

[Jane Smart]

Some puncture

 

[slowmotion]

I think the Fairy is German.....

 

[Davidc]

A good one! A classic.

I've only had one p'ture as big as that in 50 years of cycling, and it didn't manage to go through that many layers!

 

[longers]

Proper!

A friend at work got an 8mm allen key in his car tyre at the weekend. The long way in.

 

[Shaun]

Wow. Not had one that big before. I take it you'd gone off-road to end up with that in your tyre?

 

[Globalti]

Some splinter!

 

[summerdays]

What have you done to offend the fairy so so much

 

[Panter]

It's not my tyre either, luckily for me. I'm running on homemade tubeless conversion so I would've been showered with latex as well as having to repair and then replace the tyre...

It was on my mates bike, on a quick off-road excursion after work on Friday.
He was lucky, really, as he picked it up at the bottom of a pretty gnarly descent.
I was leading, and when I noticed he was no longer behind me, it was with a heavy heart that I backtracked to find him, expecting to discover him crumpled up on the floor but instead was treated to this most impressive puncture!

 

[summerdays]

Did you laugh - after all - what are friends for?

 

[Panter]

Did you laugh - after all - what are friends for?

I was too shocked to be honest!