Puncture repairs

[Ian H]

'spoons is not just for breakfast.

I'm not sure Wether you intended that.

 

[Pale Rider]

We always used teaspoons when I was a child - it never occurred to me there was such a thing as a manufactured tyre lever for bicycle tyres.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Though i was the record holder with 3 punctures on one day, but 9, you are by far the winner just hope i never come close to breaking your score.

Any one else had more than 3 or can even come close to Yukonboys run in with the puncture fairy ( or fairies )?

PS i mend tubes after i get home then refit so my spare tubes are either new or as near as.

Norfolk flints and it had got dark so was hard to avoid stuff in the road. I did have a spare tube so the patches were across two tubes. I now have a box of 100 patches and make sure I have plenty when riding my bikes not on tubeless.

 

[I like Skol]

Yep, teaspoons or dessert spoons for me too. Ma & Pa would complain when they turned up back in the cutlery draw with slight bends at the end....

 

[Mike Ayling]

I've used metal levers for over 40 years and not broken one (nor ever damaged a rim).

Agree

Mike

 

[mjr]

Aren't metal levers mainly for people who haven't learned to roll the lever over the rim as they lift the bead on/off? Sort of like stabiliser wheels for tyre fitting.

 

[Ian H]

Aren't metal levers mainly for people who haven't learned to roll the lever over the rim as they lift the bead on/off? Sort of like stabiliser wheels for tyre fitting.

You might consider them as 'traditional', or perhaps that steel is a more appropriate material for them.
Certainly I was using them long before plastic ones had been invented, rolling them over the rim as you mention.

 

[User76022]

Aren't metal levers mainly for people who haven't learned to roll the lever over the rim as they lift the bead on/off? Sort of like stabiliser wheels for tyre fitting.

Or for people with cheaper mountain bike tyres like me, ie not the foldable tyres. Ie the ones that can be quite a chore to remove.