New to cycling properly question!

KingIsabella

Hows it goin??

Im new enough to cycling for exercise as opposed to just cycling when i was a small fella! Got myself a tuscan jupiter hybrid which is a bit bumpy but itll do the job!!

Anyway my back tyre was flat this morning when I checked it, went to the garage to pump it up, air was goin straight back out again. Took if off the bike (Which was a pain in the ass!!) and changed the tube...tried pumping it again and still not holding air...going straight back out again...

Is there any specific way to get the tube in? I took one side of the tyre off and slipped the new tube in and got both sides of the tyre inside the rim...Bit annoying!! :mad:

Any help is appreciated!!

Alanstrainor

What kind of tube is it? Do you have the box of the new one to tell us the type?

Where is the air coming straight out?

KingIsabella

Shiiite, housemates dumped the box. Im not much help here! The tube seemed to be a good fit, thrown around the wheel with no tyre it looked a little too big but slipped into the tyre there wasnt much room left but it was flat and loose.

The air seemed to be coming out of the sidewall of the tyre near the valve. Maybe out from between the rim and the tyre but no signs of a holein the tube as its straight out the box.

Alanstrainor

Which one of these?

KingIsabella

Schrader!

Alanstrainor

KingIsabella wrote: »

Schrader!

Cool. Were both tubes leaking at the same spot? I'd check the tyre itself first. Remove, the tyre and the tube. Note where on the tyre the valve was, to help pin point possible areas where there might be a stone/glass/whatever.

When you have the old tube out, attempt to pump it even slightly to see if you can see the tear if it's not noticeable with the naked eye.

Then examine the inside of the tyre for anything that might be causing the puncture.

Seeing that the second tyre didn't inflate at all. You may have pinched it when putting it on in the first place.

KingIsabella

Brilliant, Cheers!!!

KingIsabella

Jobs a good'n! But now ive a new problem...

Took the tyre back off, pumped the tube a little, put the tyre back on...prpblem was still there...kinda squeezed the tyre the whole way round and now its catching air properly no bother...


Went to put the tyre back on the bike, when i tighten the rear axle the wheel wont move at all at all unless i loosen the bolts...and ive i loosen the bolts and spin the wheel theyll tighten themselves back on?

Bearings too tight maybe?

KingIsabella

This has tyurned into a recommend me a bikeshop around dublin 12 thread....wheel wobbly, bearing plate bent, and wheel locking up after a few revelations....

MB Lacey

KingIsabella wrote: »

This has tyurned into a recommend me a bikeshop around dublin 12 thread....wheel wobbly, bearing plate bent, and wheel locking up after a few revelations....

Wolfe cycles opposite superquinn on sundrive rd should be able to sort you out