Last weekend I’d rode my road bike on three consecutive days. Saturday 18 miles, Sunday 18 miles followed by 67 on the Bank Holiday Monday. On the Saturday evening I’d replaced the valve core and refreshed the sealant on my slow leaky rear tyre had it had been no further problem. Yesterday , nearly a week later I had to top up both tyres before heading out but thought nothing of it.
All was good until Amesbury, about 15 miles where i realised my rear needed a top up, which I did with my mini hand pump. We got to Upavon and it needed another, at Pewsey after coffee and cake another top up, in the end it seemed every 8-10 miles it needed attention, somewhere I tried changing the core, but they appeared to have different threads. We called in at The Marlborough bike shop, they looked at it and at my suggestion changed the valve core and as there was no obvious leak suggested I change the rim tape later. As the tyre was properly inflated it lasted a lot longer, but still leaked.
60 miles in and near Devizes, time for lunch at the highly recommended Rowdey Cow. The Sausage ciabatta was excellent. I topped up the rear as we were leaving, in the village of Keevil I topped up again and thought it hadn’t lost as much air, wrong ! Only a few miles later somewhere near Steeple Ashton it gave up. We found a gateway, removed the wheel and fitted a TPU tube, that bit was easy. Inexplicably my pumps hose would not screw onto the valve stem, luckily my friends.
Are there different threads for Schrader valve cores and can TPU tubes have a different thread or am unlucky that I had these issues when it was raining on my longest ride.
All was good until Amesbury, about 15 miles where i realised my rear needed a top up, which I did with my mini hand pump. We got to Upavon and it needed another, at Pewsey after coffee and cake another top up, in the end it seemed every 8-10 miles it needed attention, somewhere I tried changing the core, but they appeared to have different threads. We called in at The Marlborough bike shop, they looked at it and at my suggestion changed the valve core and as there was no obvious leak suggested I change the rim tape later. As the tyre was properly inflated it lasted a lot longer, but still leaked.
60 miles in and near Devizes, time for lunch at the highly recommended Rowdey Cow. The Sausage ciabatta was excellent. I topped up the rear as we were leaving, in the village of Keevil I topped up again and thought it hadn’t lost as much air, wrong ! Only a few miles later somewhere near Steeple Ashton it gave up. We found a gateway, removed the wheel and fitted a TPU tube, that bit was easy. Inexplicably my pumps hose would not screw onto the valve stem, luckily my friends.
Are there different threads for Schrader valve cores and can TPU tubes have a different thread or am unlucky that I had these issues when it was raining on my longest ride.
