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"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Punctures. Usually I get little flint punctures which you don't even know about until you go to
ride home and find the tyre is flat. Not the end of the world - at least you get to fix it in the
warm. I used to get about

one

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a fortnight on the 'bent, none on the wedgie which has armour-plated

tyres.

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In the last 7 days I've had five explosive punctures on the road. That's more than I've had in the
whole of the rest of the time since I started cycle commuting, including the puncture I once had
on a club run.

Last night I fitted a new tube and tyre. Foolishly I said to Mrs Jus Zis Guy that I hoped I could
make it through the day witout a visit form the p*nct*r* fairy. Hah! Some hope. Less than 500
yards later Bang! and I

was

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pushing the bike back home.

So I got out the wedgie, put air in the tyres and rode that. Which is a bugger because it's
seriously windy, and intolerance for pushing the wind home was the reason I bought the 'bent in
the first place.

Bah!

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Nasty.

Im sure you will have checked but is there anything on the rim causing the punctures?

Just a thought :-)

Bah indeed. You must have done /something/ to arouse the ire of the P+nct+r+e Fairy. Go and say ten
Hail Sheldons and stick this pin - | - into a photograph of Er+c M+rtl+w.

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"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Punctures.

<snip middle bit> Which is a

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bugger because it's seriously windy, and intolerance for pushing the wind home was the reason I
bought the 'bent in the first place.

Bah!

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That'sa bit like me buying a 4x4 only to have the 4wd bit pack in just before all that horrendous
snow we had last week....luckily, it wasn't too bad round these 'ere parts and I managed to use my
bike rather than the car ;-) Dave.

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Im sure you will have checked but is there anything on the rim causing the punctures?

No, they're all smack in the middle of the tread.

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Just zis Guy said:

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Im sure you will have checked but is there anything on the rim causing the punctures?

No, they're all smack in the middle of the tread.

If you have a slightly splayed rim, the tyre blows off, the tube bursts (could be anywhere) and
the tyre *almost always falls back onto the rim*. If the pucture is a long slash this is probably
what happened.

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If you have a slightly splayed rim, the tyre blows off, the tube bursts (could be anywhere) and
the tyre *almost always falls back onto the rim*. If the pucture is a long slash this is probably
what happened.

Since it requires several minutes of spirited activity to remove these tyres from the rim, I don't
think that's the problem ;-)

Actually I know it isn't. It's cuts in the casing, on the main part of the tread, around 3-5mm long.
You can patch the tube and run it at about 80psi but one decent bump or inflate to full pressure and
the tube blows out of the hole, so the tyre is doomed once it's happened.

Trust me, I am a connoiseur of punctures by now :-D

Next stop: the bike shop for a Park tyre boot or three.

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you know? said:

"Zog The Undeniable" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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If you have a slightly splayed rim, the tyre blows off, the tube bursts (could be anywhere) and
the tyre *almost always falls back onto the rim*. If the pucture is a long slash this is probably
what happened.

Since it requires several minutes of spirited activity to remove these tyres from the rim, I don't
think that's the problem ;-)

Actually I know it isn't. It's cuts in the casing, on the main part of the tread, around 3-5mm
long. You can patch the tube and run it at about 80psi but one decent bump or inflate to full
pressure and the tube blows out of the hole, so the tyre is doomed once it's happened.

Trust me, I am a connoiseur of punctures by now :-D

Next stop: the bike shop for a Park tyre boot or three.

I had the same problem. Changed the tyre and tube and still the thing punctured. The cause was
poorly fitted rim tape after my LBS has replaced a couple of spokes and trued the wheel. The edge of
the plastic tape was cutting the tube resulting in a puncture which looked like a split in the tube.

I was furious that my LBS had done such a poor job with the rim tape and received a refund for the
new tyre and tube.

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No, they're all smack in the middle of the tread.

Slime them.

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No, they're all smack in the middle of the tread.

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Slime them.

The p*nct*r* fairies? That only works in Ghostbusters.

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Gonzalez said:

I had the same problem. Changed the tyre and tube and still the thing punctured. The cause was
poorly fitted rim tape after my LBS has replaced a couple of spokes and trued the wheel. The
edge of the plastic tape was cutting the tube resulting in a puncture which looked like a split
in the tube.

Plastic rim tape is a work of Stan. Velox make the One True Tape.

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Im sure you will have checked but is there anything on the rim causing the punctures?

No, they're all smack in the middle of the tread.

It's the ABD setting booby traps in the road near your house. They will not stop until you finally
acknowledge the existence of road tacks.

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Gonzalez said:

I had the same problem. Changed the tyre and tube and still the thing punctured. The cause was
poorly fitted rim tape after my LBS has replaced a couple of spokes and trued the wheel. The
edge of the plastic tape was cutting the tube resulting in a puncture which looked like a split
in the tube.

Guy's punctures are explosive. That means that part of the tube is outside the tyre casing when
it happens.

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On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:24:11 +0000, Dave Kahn <[email hidden]>

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Guy's punctures are explosive. That means that part of the tube is outside the tyre casing when
it happens.

Correct. Todays left a substantial tear in the casing, God knows what caused it. Unless it's that
old tyre on which I hit a flint a while back and shoved to the back of the cupboard... Oh bugger.

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you know? said:

Gonzalez said:

I had the same problem. Changed the tyre and tube and still the thing punctured. The cause was
poorly fitted rim tape after my LBS has replaced a couple of spokes and trued the wheel. The
edge of the plastic tape was cutting the tube resulting in a puncture which looked like a split
in the tube.

Plastic rim tape is a work of Stan. Velox make the One True Tape.

After I was knocked from my bike in a bus lane, by a right turning car driver who did not look, I
replaced my rims with double lined Mavic rims.

Unfortunately, the driver never paid up, as she had promised, for the damage repair.

and the p*n*t*re fairy has come-a-knocking at my door. bah. gotta buy some patchy stuff and may as well get a spare tube. running a conti grand prix at the front and a battered mtb heavy tread at the rear. looks very silly.
Bah!

Just zis Guy said:

Plastic rim tape is a work of Stan. Velox make the One True Tape.

My experince of the hard yellow Michelin stuff is that it can't take the pressure of 150psi tyres,
so the tube pushes through the spoke holes to give a "sphincter tea towel holder" [1] effect. Then
it's only a matter of time before *BANG*.

[1] I dearly hope people know what I'm talking about here, as I can't think of a better name for
the things

On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 18:59:43 +0000, Zog The Undeniable <[email hidden]>

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My experince of the hard yellow Michelin stuff is that it can't take the pressure of 150psi tyres,
so the tube pushes through the spoke holes to give a "sphincter tea towel holder" [1] effect. Then
it's only a matter of time before *BANG*.

[1] I dearly hope people know what I'm talking about here, as I can't think of a better name for
the things

You mean one of those clever holders where you poke the corner of the tea towel in and then can't
get your finger out. The tea towel, however, drops to the floor as soon as you stop looking at it.

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Dave Kahn said:

It's the ABD setting booby traps in the road near your house. They will not stop until you finally
acknowledge the existence of road tacks.

Two gold stars and twenty house points for that man!

P.S. Please send me a new keyboard.

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