Puncture!

tailwindhome

First visit from the puncture fairy today

Not working at the minute due to redundancy so decided to walk home instead of trying to fix at the roadside

Back home now and trying to get the tyre off (haven't changed a tyre for 15 years or so)

It looks like

http://www.mcconveycycles.com/store/pro ... RE-2.0%22/

Though I my be wrong, the bike is Specialized HR XC mountain bike bought of Ebay so I dont know the specs

I was expected to lever off the tyre and replace a seperate inner tube. However I seems to be a one piece tyre and tube. Am I correct or being stupid

Secondly if the whole tyre/tube combo needs replaced I may as well replace the tyres with a slicker tyre for road use. Any suggestions

Hope to buy from Halfords in the next hour or two so I can ride tommorrow AM


Have posted this in Workshop too, sorry about the double post, but if I want to catch Halfords before they close I need to go ASAP

Thanks as ever

alfablue

Is it a tubeless tyre setup?

I don't know much about them but there should be no problem with running with a tube. As for slicks, Schwalbe City Jets are cheap and good and come in a reasonable volume (presuming you have a fairly wide rim). I don't think Halfords will sell them, though they do have an own brand tyre that looks similar - don't know if it would be any good. Can you get to a proper bike shop?

DonDaddyD

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

First visit from the puncture fairy today

Not working at the minute due to redundancy so decided to walk home instead of trying to fix at the roadside

Sorry for the intrusion but why would a redundancy stop you from fixing the wheel at the roadside?
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Might be the case that the tube is simply stuck to the tyre.

I like Maxxis Detornator (sp) tyres.

_Brun_

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

I was expected to lever off the tyre and replace a seperate inner tube. However I seems to be a one piece tyre and tube. Am I correct or being stupid

If you're basing that on the photo, I think it's just been taken with the tyre on a rim. A spokeless rim just to make it appear more confusing.

always_tyred

You haven't changed a tube for 15 years you say?

Does that mean that the tube has been in that tyre for 15 years?

Kidding aside, I think that your tube and tyre are just a bit gummed up. Could be that water has seeped in over the decades, or that the tube or tyre are getting a bit perished.

If you think that the materials are basically okay, and that you have simply been a victim of road debris, use a bit of talc on the tube to help stop it getting stuck together again.

blackworx

Just to confuse matters further, you do get tubulars which fit on a standard hooked rim. If your tyre had to be levered off AND the tube is definitely not removable (and not just stuck in there as DDD suggests) then I'd say that's the kind of tyre you have. You can replace it with one of the same or get a separate tube/tyre.

tailwindhome

DonDaddyD wrote:

Sorry for the intrusion but why would a redundancy stop you from fixing the wheel at the roadside

Not having to get to to work meant I could walk home, it was only a couple of mile, and fix the puncture at my leisure while sipping on a nice cold beer 8)

Also not having a puncture repair kit or spare tube on board would have made a roadside repair somewhat tricky.

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

However it seems to be a one piece tyre and tube. Am I correct or being stupid

Apparently I was just being stupid :oops:

Clumsy use of the tyre levers meant I was failing to seperate the tyre wall from the tube, instead I was trying to lever off tyre and tube together and wrongly assuming it was a one piece unit. :oops:

_Brun_ wrote:

If you're basing that on the photo, I think it's just been taken with the tyre on a rim. A spokeless rim just to make it appear more confusing.

Yeah the photo only reinforced my mistaken assumption

Anyway job's done now and I'm back on the road, with a spare tube on board and a new skill learnt.

You live and you learn!