Four punctures and three patches.

Mike Causer said:

Resigning myself to stopping every 3-4 minutes on the nominally
half-hour ride home, the first time I stopped to pump was alongside a
narrow-boat tied up in the lode. The owner stepped out and asked how I
found the bank on the small wheels of the Moulton. He had a Bickerton
but didn't ride it on unsurfaced tracks, "too flexy". (He also had an
MTB on which he did 6km each way along the lode for food shopping.)

A narrow boat and a motor torpedo boat to go shopping in. Sounds like
fun :-)
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

Mike Causer said:

You would have thought that 3 patches in the puncture kit would be
sufficient for a gentle 20km pootle, including a river-bank>
There's a Schwalbe Marathon Slick replacement tyre already in stock
under my workbench in the garage, and a new tube too, so that should
stave off PF visits for a while. In fact once the new tyre is fitted
all the roadworthy bikes will be on Schwalbes [unpaid product
endorsement].

Mike

Nope, you forgot the spare inner tube. If you carry nowt else, at least have
a spare tube & a pump (or make the wife carry it like my mate Gary. And
John.)
--

Martin Bulmer

Martin Bulmer said:

Mike Causer said:

You would have thought that 3 patches in the puncture kit would be
sufficient for a gentle 20km pootle, including a river-bank>
There's a Schwalbe Marathon Slick replacement tyre already in stock
under my workbench in the garage, and a new tube too, so that should
stave off PF visits for a while. In fact once the new tyre is fitted
all the roadworthy bikes will be on Schwalbes [unpaid product
endorsement].

Nope, you forgot the spare inner tube. If you carry nowt else, at
least have a spare tube & a pump (or make the wife carry it like my
mate Gary. And John.)

Your wife must be strong.

Either that or Gary and John are very light.

IGMC

Mike Causer said:

You would have thought that 3 patches in the puncture kit would be
sufficient for a gentle 20km pootle, including a river-bank I haven't
traversed before, wouldn't you? No, there were 4 holes. One I found
right away, very ragged, glass probably. The next two were sharp grit
still in the tyre, funnily enough the same coloured grit that "S" use on
the section of NCN11 that I'd just ridden along. The fourth was a thorn.

When down to my last patch, I cut them in half if I can get away with
it.

Phil Cook said:

A narrow boat and a motor torpedo boat to go shopping in. Sounds like fun
:-)

There have been complaints about the pirate problem in the area for years,
but the council & police refuse to take any action -- too scared of them.

Mike

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Martin Bulmer said:

Mike Causer said:

You would have thought that 3 patches in the puncture kit would be
sufficient for a gentle 20km pootle, including a river-bank>
There's a Schwalbe Marathon Slick replacement tyre already in stock
under my workbench in the garage, and a new tube too, so that should
stave off PF visits for a while. In fact once the new tyre is
fitted all the roadworthy bikes will be on Schwalbes [unpaid product
endorsement].

Nope, you forgot the spare inner tube. If you carry nowt else, at
least have a spare tube & a pump (or make the wife carry it like my
mate Gary. And John.)

Your wife must be strong.

Either that or Gary and John are very light.

IGMC

She's sturdy.
--

Martin Bulmer

Tom Crispin said:

When down to my last patch, I cut them in half if I can get away with
it.

And when down to your last half patch?

--

Dave...

dkahn400 wrote on 18/07/2006 14:49 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Tom Crispin said:

When down to my last patch, I cut them in half if I can get away with
it.

And when down to your last half patch?

You can never run out of Xeno's tyre patches

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Tony Raven said:

dkahn400 wrote on 18/07/2006 14:49 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Tom Crispin said:

When down to my last patch, I cut them in half if I can get away with
it.

And when down to your last half patch?

You can never run out of Xeno's tyre patches

But he never has one that is big enough to span the hole...

And his glue never dries so you can't put the patch on..

...d

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:23:44 +0100, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

dkahn400 wrote on 18/07/2006 14:49 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Tom Crispin said:

When down to my last patch, I cut them in half if I can get away with
it.

And when down to your last half patch?

You can never run out of Xeno's tyre patches

Only because you can never get close enough to them to pick one up.

Tim

David Martin said:

Tony Raven said:

dkahn400 wrote on 18/07/2006 14:49 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Tom Crispin wrote:

> When down to my last patch, I cut them in half if I can get away with
> it.
And when down to your last half patch?

You can never run out of Xeno's tyre patches

But he never has one that is big enough to span the hole...

And his glue never dries so you can't put the patch on..

On the plus side, all the air doesn't escape.

--

JimP

" " - John Cage

Tim Hall wrote on 18/07/2006 15:53 +0100:

Quoted message said:

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:23:44 +0100, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

dkahn400 wrote on 18/07/2006 14:49 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Tom Crispin wrote:

> When down to my last patch, I cut them in half if I can get away with
> it.
And when down to your last half patch?

You can never run out of Xeno's tyre patches

Only because you can never get close enough to them to pick one up.

But that doesn't really matter as you can't leave home in the first
place ;-)

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

In article <[email hidden]>

dkahn400 said:

Tom Crispin said:

When down to my last patch, I cut them in half if I can get away with
it.

And when down to your last half patch?

I've used superglue and a bit of plastic bag to get me home - it worked
:-)