May 5th, 2008
Puncture Hell
Rode out on Thursday night and picked up some punctures. Fixed four of them Friday evening.
At the same time I fixed a couple of punctures in Zak’s spasticar cripplechariot*.
Eva and ‘Puncture Boy’
Saturday morning and Zak gets another puncture. My rear tyre is flat too, so I find the one I’d missed, fix that, and sort Zaks cart out again.
Sunday morning taking Zak for his walk before we set out for SSUK and he flats again. At Drumlanrig I have some time to kill before the race, and find and fix five punctures in Zaks wheel. I’ve no patches left and still it deflates. I have to buy another set of patches from Rik’s Bike Shed (no 14″ tubes in stock), and, you guessed it, still it goes flat. I find two more I’d missed, and it seems to be holding. Ten minutes later, up by the castle it is flat again.
I have fixed more punctures - fifteen, count ‘em, fifteen - in the past two days than in the past three years. This afternoon shall mostly be spent with a bucket of water and a pile of patches.
* wheelchair.
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May 5th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Seems to be the time of year for punctures. I found at least a dozen thorns in a pram tyre that came in for a new tube the other day.
May 5th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Must be the hawthorns shedding or something - all of ours were thorns.
I can’t believe I’m even considering tubeless, but if someone does a kit for Skyway Tuff 14″ BMX wheels they get my credit card number ;)
May 5th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Thought about bunging tyre liners in there?
May 6th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Just jam a 20″ tube in :-)
May 7th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Tubeless conversion kit and a load of sealant. Job done. Cape Epic tested :)