Puncture paranoia
AndyOgy
Posts: 579
I'm not about to ask how to avoid punctures. God knows, there's enough threads about that already.
So far, all my commuting punctures have been either slowly deflating affairs which I've not noticed until I got home/to work. Or they have happened in really quite convenient places.
What worries me is that sometimes, my commute can reach speeds well oner 30mph. Now I've been really lucky that I've not yet had a misshap whilst travelling at this sort of speed but it's been really playing on my mind lately that I would proper stack the bike if I were to suddenly lose tyre pressure at this sort of speed.
On my road bike, I'd be hard pushed to tell if it'd lost 10psi over the last 5 minutes and was therefore about to lose most of the rest of it during some fast descent.
Has anyone had this happen to them, or do punctures just not normally occur at high speed?
So far, all my commuting punctures have been either slowly deflating affairs which I've not noticed until I got home/to work. Or they have happened in really quite convenient places.
What worries me is that sometimes, my commute can reach speeds well oner 30mph. Now I've been really lucky that I've not yet had a misshap whilst travelling at this sort of speed but it's been really playing on my mind lately that I would proper stack the bike if I were to suddenly lose tyre pressure at this sort of speed.
On my road bike, I'd be hard pushed to tell if it'd lost 10psi over the last 5 minutes and was therefore about to lose most of the rest of it during some fast descent.
Has anyone had this happen to them, or do punctures just not normally occur at high speed?
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Well it might happen, but then again you might get hit by a meteorite.<a>road</a>0
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I had a blowout (tyre herniated through hole in sidewall, deflated within a couple of seconds) when I was going about 25mph. I managed to stop fine with minimal wobble, though it conveniently happened just as the hill flattened out. This was a Spesh Armadillo 25mm, fwiw, which is a lot more rigid than the tyres I mainly use, so maybe that helped?0
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I had an instantaneous fully inflated to flat moment last week (first day on my new Boardman aswell). Probably doing around 20 at the time. No real wobble to be honest, just a bit hard on the backside whilst coming to a stop!0
