Punctures

poddle

Do you guys fix a puncture or just replace the tube and throw away the old tube. I've heard that the patches don't take very well on the tubes. My tires are 700 x 23c .Any advise would be appreciated thanks !!

Colonel Panic

I use a new tube if I'm on the side of the road, but I'll repair tubes if I can. They're usually fine.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I replace the tube. I couldn't be bothered with gluing patches. CRC and wiggle often do deals for multiple tubes every so often so I stock up on them. I currently have 8 spare tubes which will hopefully do me a long long time.

Scrappy600

I quite enjoy patching tubes for some strange reason! Have only one tube at the moment that's brand new with no patches!

topcat77

Always fix the tubes. I have spare tubes when out, if i have a puncture i change the tube and bring the punctured tube home and fix. There does come a point when you'll have to bin. I tend to buy good quality tubes so can't afford to bin after a puncture.

seamus

On the side of the road I'll always use a new tube unless I've no other choice.

At home I aspire to go and fix the tubes, but sometimes I forget to do it.

No Pants

Scrappy600 wrote: »

I quite enjoy patching tubes for some strange reason!

Basin/sinkful of water and all that.

crosstownk

As others, I replace the tube at the side of the road and bring it home and repair it to use it again. I'll only repair a tube at the roadside if I'm unfortunate enough to get a second puncture. I'm always expecting a second 'pinch' puncture as my ALDI short stroke pump is just not able to get the pressure up. I really need to invest in a decent compact pump.

No Pants

Two tubes, two CO2 canisters and a CO2 pump. Plus a small box of patches. Some might say that's overkill...

poddle

I have the CO2 spare tubes etc ..but was just wondering do the repaired tubes stand up to the pressure ...Thanks for the replies !

Scrappy600

No Pants wrote: »

Two tubes, two CO2 canisters and a CO2 pump. Plus a small box of patches. Some might say that's overkill...

same as me but i only carry one tube so the patches are even more important!

cdaly_

poddle wrote: »

I have the CO2 spare tubes etc ..but was just wondering do the repaired tubes stand up to the pressure ...Thanks for the replies !

Yep, no bother. If I'm out solo, I might just patch the tube on the roadside, with a group it's swap tubes and get rolling again and patch later.

I also carry patched tubes as spares...

aFlabbyPanda

I've always replaced the tube and then binned the old one but when I got my new bike I had no spares for a while and started patching them. They are holding fine so far.

I tried using a CO2 pump one day and made a complete hames of it and wasting the canister in the process. Just use my hand pump now instead.

aloyisious

Don't ever forget the chalk.

darkvalley

I've only had one puncture so far, about 6 months ago. Patched the tube and it has given no bother so far.

Midnight64

Reduce, reuse, re-bicycle!!!

equivariant

Scrappy600 wrote: »

I quite enjoy patching tubes for some strange reason! Have only one tube at the moment that's brand new with no patches!

^this! There is something very wholesome about patching a tube - even though they are only 6 euro a pop. Actually I had such a bad run of punctures recently that 6 euro a pop was starting to seem like a lot. 4 punctures in a week will do that

07Lapierre

Stop talking about punctures! Got one this evening on the way home. First one in months and they do say they come in 3's!!