Puncture Repairs

1-wheeled-grape said:

patches ar cheaper but i dont know if it would hold while doing big dops
and trials😕

If you wait for the rubber cement to dry properly before putting your
patch on, the patch will hold while you do whatever big drops or
anything.

At bike shops when people bring in punctured tires, they replace the
tube cos for them it is more cost effective to change a tube than fix a
hole, time-wise. I think on a unicycle the time advantage of changing
the tube is negated by the fact that you have to take off the frame to
change tube, while you can fix a flat without taking it off. I never
use water- even small holes can be found fairly easily without it. I
often cut my patches up cos they are way bigger than most holes. A
quarter of a small patch fixes most. I used to get flat tires all the
time, but since riding a 4ply Coker I have not had hardly any.

It annoys me too how people throw away tubes so much. In big cycle
races you see tubes by the side of the road all the time, where bikers
have fixed a flat by replacing their tube to save waiting for the glue
to dry.

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I just use those sticker patches. Ones even on that rubber mold line and
it holds fine. I do lots of drops and stuff on it, and no leaking with
them. I like them a lot better than the original patches.

These I just find the whole, peel a sticker, put it on, and put my tube
back in and fill it up. You get quite a lot of stickers in one kit too.

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Jerrick said:

I just use those sticker patches. Ones even on that rubber mold line and
it holds fine. I do lots of drops and stuff on it, and no leaking with
them. I like them a lot better than the original patches.

My experience of that sort of patch is that they're great up to about
60psi, and absolutely hopeless beyond that.

If you're in the habit of doing lots of drops, I guess your tyre
pressure won't be anywhere close to 60psi so that won't be an issue for
you.

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Rowan said:

It annoys me too how people throw away tubes so much. In big cycle
races you see tubes by the side of the road all the time, where bikers
have fixed a flat by replacing their tube to save waiting for the glue
to dry.

When bicycling I usually bring along an extra tube and swap it in if I
get a flat on the road. It's faster and less error-prone. But,
there's no excuse for not putting the other tube back in your bag and
fixing it at home.

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