Mystery rubber tube in punc repair kit - do you know what it's for?

[another_dave_b]

Just bought a 'Rema TT02' puncture repair kit.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MIPFWS?smid=A30Q0H3VJSYY3J&tag=nextag-sg-20&linkCode=asn

It includes a little rubber tube that I can't for the life of me see a use for. Can you enlighten me?

 

[ChrisKH]

It's for use as a temporary airway when your glands swell & block up your throat when you mistakenly eat a chocolate peanut thinking it's a chocolate raisin.

 

[mickle]

It's a spare part for the now largely obsolete 'Woods' valve. Bin it.

 

[andygates]

Or sneak it into a mate's macaroni cheese and watch their face.

 

[Steve Austin]

It's a spare part for the now largely obsolete 'Woods' valve. Bin it.

'tips hat at fellow bike geek'

 

[gbb]

Oh dear...now my age is beginning to show. I remember a time when it seemed EVERY outfit had that tube in....think i even used that piece of rubber ONCE on a faulty valve when i was a kid.

 

[simoncc]

Oh dear...now my age is beginning to show. I remember a time when it seemed EVERY outfit had that tube in....think i even used that piece of rubber ONCE on a faulty valve when i was a kid.

I never used that little rubber tube either. As this kit still has it in I'm surprised it didn't also have a little container of powdered chalk too. That was common in the olden days in posher kits.

At $8 dollars though I'd want a hosepipe not a little rubber tube. These days I get my puncture outfits at the £1 shop - decent patches, 2 tubes of rubber solution, good tyre levers, a grotty spanner and a couple of Allen keys all for a quid! And Tesco do a good kit for 79p.

 

[jay clock]

It is a catheter tube. Insert it, and you can pee down the leg of your shorts where the pee evaporates. Not sure if it works for women