My last bike went 12 years without a puncture. My current bike has had 2 in 6 months.
The first one, I repaired with a puncture repair kit that cost me 6 quid. It comes with a set of useless tools including two plastic tyre levers that bent on first use. When I got my second puncture I thought I'd better buy a replacement inner tube in case the new puncture was actually a failure of the previous repair. As it turned out it wasn't, so I was able to repair it and save the new tube as a spare.
But this got me thinking. If an inner tube is 3 quid, is there really any point messing about with fiddly puncture repairs?
The first one, I repaired with a puncture repair kit that cost me 6 quid. It comes with a set of useless tools including two plastic tyre levers that bent on first use. When I got my second puncture I thought I'd better buy a replacement inner tube in case the new puncture was actually a failure of the previous repair. As it turned out it wasn't, so I was able to repair it and save the new tube as a spare.
But this got me thinking. If an inner tube is 3 quid, is there really any point messing about with fiddly puncture repairs?