I'd like you all to know that I'm doing more than my fair share...

[Andrew_Culture]

...of collecting puncture hazards, so I hope you all appreciate my accidental efforts to make the roads a safer place for your tyres.

Before much longer I think my rear inner tube will be so covered in patches that I will no longer require a tyre at all.

 

[Panter]

I wondered why it'd been so incident free lately!
Well, thank you kind Sir, your noble efforts are appreciated

 

[Beebo]

You're not doing enough work down in south London. i've had 4 in the past week, including one last night on the front and one this morning on the rear. It was a slow puncture in the last mile to work, so I have a bike parked down stairs with a puncture that needs fixing before i go home.

Time for new tyres I think.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

You're not doing enough work down in south London. i've had 4 in the past week, including one last night on the front and one this morning on the rear. It was a slow puncture in the last mile to work, so I have a bike parked down stairs with a puncture that needs fixing before i go home.

Time for new tyres I think.

I'll be in South London on Thursday evening (I shoot you not) so you should be able to relax from Friday onwards.

 

[numbnuts]

I had one way back in March

 

[cyberknight]

care to ride my route a few times Andrew to keep the fairy at bay for me ?
I went a good 6 months with no flats then had 2 in the space of a couple of days , it happens and for em tends to be more when its dark as i can`t see the road debris so easily .As i have often mentioned my flats tend to happen on the one bit of cycle path i use , its that or a roundabout of death .

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

You missed a push pin in Potton.. Obviously!!

 

[totallyfixed]

...of collecting puncture hazards, so I hope you all appreciate my accidental efforts to make the roads a safer place for your tyres.

Before much longer I think my rear inner tube will be so covered in patches that I will no longer require a tyre at all.

Good stuff, keep it up. I get grumpy if I get a puncture full stop, the last one I had was on a CC ride, mind you we had been in Cheshire. That brings the tally to 2 punctures in just over 32,000 miles, not good enough especially when I get ripped off at almost £14 per tyre. What's the secret I hear you ask, not telling otherwise it will start costing me more .

 

[Andrew_Culture]

You missed a push pin in Potton.. Obviously!!

Oh no! I've just realised that my punctures might be karma at work - many years ago I started a company that makes push pins!

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Oh no! I've just realised that my punctures might be karma at work - many years ago I started a company that makes push pins!

Fair point! But why is your karma haunting mine though? I've always been very kind to -most- push pins...

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Fair point! But why is your karma haunting mine though? I've always been very kind to -most- push pins...

Oh we were kind to them to, we set many free each month!

 

[Archie_tect]

Is there any real benefit to the ride quality between tyres pumped up to 90/100psi+ and just using solid tyres? Are we just wasting our time and effort using pneumatic ones when they are so hard and unforgiving anyway?

....just a thought!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Is there any real benefit to the ride quality between tyres pumped up to 90/100psi+ and just using solid tyres? Are we just wasting our time and effort using pneumatic ones when they are so hard and unforgiving anyway?

....just a thought!

Oh I wonder too!

 

[4F]

What tyres and pressure are you running ?. On my fixed I currently have a gatorskin on the front and a marathon + on the rear and twice a week I am topping up the pressure to ensure I am running 100psi. On the geared it has gatorskins and nothing so far this year on either bike.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I'm running Swalbre Lugano I think, the writing has worn off, I gave the rear tyre a close inspection tonight and it is shredded to fark. They cost a tenner each and have done over a thousand miles in the last eight or nine weeks.

I run them at 110psi and check the pressure every two days.