Comments on my first puncture push home

[Jon]

can you get tubeless tyres on a innover

You need a tube on most spoked wheels. You CAN use tubeless tyres but you have to fit a tube. The only way to go tubeless is to fit alloy wheels....

[jammy james]

I've ridden home a couple of miles with flat tyre,just keep the speed down!! Far easier doing it at home, for longer trips I do take tools plus tube...

[stevew]

I've ridden home a couple of miles with flat tyre,just keep the speed down!! Far easier doing it at home, for longer trips I do take tools plus tube...

I would reckon a couple of miles on a flat tyre would mean a new tyre & tube ?

[Jon]

I've ridden home a couple of miles with flat tyre,just keep the speed down!! Far easier doing it at home, for longer trips I do take tools plus tube...

I would reckon a couple of miles on a flat tyre would mean a new tyre & tube ?

New tube certainly....Depends on which tyre and how well you can keep your weight off it. After 12 miles my rear was showing signs of distress but I actually think at a push i could have got away with not replacing it. The rubber wasn't visibly damaged and cubs are light, slow machines anyway.

[stevec]

I use slime or gloop,and ive never been stuck with a puncture since I started using it, changing a tube at the side of the road in the dark,cold,rain is hopefully a thing of the past,it will repair a puncture upto 3mm, even if it doesn't repair it, it should stop rapid deflation and stop a buttock clenching experience

[digger06]

it doesn't often stop rapid deflation, in a tube, because if the hole is pretty big, and by chance the gloop does stop it, the tube splits anyway,
well, that's what I have seen quite a few times, the other thing with that stuff is you never know if your punctured if it does work,

maybe not such a problem on a slow bike though...

I prefer to carry a tube,

[andyk1k]

At a push try ramming grass if available into the tyre !! better than nothing at all and helps in a miles from no where situation....

[stevec]

it doesn't often stop rapid deflation, in a tube, because if the hole is pretty big, and by chance the gloop does stop it, the tube splits anyway,
well, that's what I have seen quite a few times, the other thing with that stuff is you never know if your punctured if it does work,

maybe not such a problem on a slow bike though...

I prefer to carry a tube,

I cant disagree with what you say, especially if you have seen it a few times,but ive been using it for maybe 5 0r 6 years and have never been stranded with a puncture. it leaves a tell tail green mark on the tyre where the puncture is,its got me home with a puncture at least 3 times,once on a touring holiday in wales covering about 700 miles in a week I had a puncture at some point and didn't notice until I got home and washed the bike off but that puncture could of happened a mile from leaving home or a mile before I arrived back home,i don t know but I always change the tube asap

[stevew]

My turn today

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[Bill/Rubery]

I don't want appear a 'know-all' but surely you people can be like the Scouts and ....Be Prepared'...and join a break down rescue organisation!! The only time I needed the AA was when I had a puncture in my rear tyre at 12.10am leaving my part time job. the local farmers were slashing the local hedgerows and I picked up a splinter. The AA turned up in no time to take me home and even phoned my wife to tell her what was happening...