I had a weird puncture, one which cut my tyre badly. I bought a new tyre and put it all back together again, with a new tube. I broke on of my new plastic tyre levers doing it. By the next morning the tyre had gone flat. The tube had been punctured at a spoke hole. I put the other tube back in, the one I'd repaired after the first puncture, and realised that one had another hole.
I spent much of my childhood quickly and efficiently repairing bicycle punctures. What has gone wrong? Why can't God make better rim tape, that doesn't move out of place when you're struggling to get a stiff tyre over the rim? If the inner edge of the tubes have little oval marks where they meet each spokehole, what does that mean?
"D.M. Procida" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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I spent much of my childhood quickly and efficiently repairing bicycle punctures. What has gone wrong? Why can't God make better rim tape, that doesn't move out of place when you're struggling to get a stiff tyre over the rim? If the inner edge of the tubes have little oval marks where they meet each spokehole, what does that mean?
It means you're not using Velox rim tape. This is a sticky backed cloth tape which can solve all your problems, and create world peace at the same time.
It comes in various widths - you need to get the right one for your rim.
(although the last two wheels I got/built had some dark blue equivalent instead - still sticky-backed cloth though).
I had a weird puncture, one which cut my tyre badly. I bought a new tyre and put it all back together again, with a new tube. I broke on of my new plastic tyre levers doing it. By the next morning the tyre had gone flat. The tube had been punctured at a spoke hole.
I forgot this bit: I repaired the new tube I'd just punctured, and then while I was straightening the valve pin I'd somehow bent, I snapped it tight off, ruining the brand new tube that I had just punctured and then repaired. And then:
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I put the other tube back in, the one I'd repaired after the first puncture, and realised that one had another hole.
Argh. Now the other tyre, which has caused me no trouble for two months or more, has been punctured at a spoke hole. What's going on here? Perhaps I am inflating the tyres too hard. Time to get some better rim tape.
"D.M. Procida" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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D.M. Procida said:
The tube had been punctured at a spoke hole.
Argh. Now the other tyre, which has caused me no trouble for two months or more, has been punctured at a spoke hole. What's going on here? Perhaps I am inflating the tyres too hard. Time to get some better rim tape.
bad rim tape, probably not if you had a decent rim tape (how hard do you pump them?), yes, in that order - like I already said.
Argh. Now the other tyre, which has caused me no trouble for two months or more, has been punctured at a spoke hole. What's going on here? Perhaps I am inflating the tyres too hard. Time to get some better rim tape.
Overinflation unlikley to be a problem (tubes will stand up to 120+ psi if suitably contained by a suitable tyre and /suitably smooth/ rim), so I'd get some new rim tape in.
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Argh. Now the other tyre, which has caused me no trouble for two months or more, has been punctured at a spoke hole. What's going on here? Perhaps I am inflating the tyres too hard.
No, decent rim tape should take very high pressure........
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Time to get some better rim tape.
Yes and make sure ends of spokes aren't poking up anywhere near it as well. Even the best rim tape will get pushed down the holes a little bit from pressure and bumps.
