I can't believe i don't have a puncture!

brighton-biker

I was cycling along Brighton seafront cycle lane today, enjoying the sun and generally not paying a great amount of attention to the path.

Suddenly it's like a bomb has gone off underneath my bike. A glass bomb! Fragments flying everywhere!

I had ridden straight over/through a pretty heavyweight one liter vodka bottle, exploding it into a thousand pieces and spreading glass all over the cycle lane. Doh!

I stopped as soon as i could, feeling my front and back tires, expecting them to be quickly deflating, but they were fine! The skinny Continental Ultra Gatorskins don't have a mark on them! How is this possible? Why can tires cope with this but puncture on a small pebble another day?!

Oh and I borrowed a broom and swept the glass off the cycle lane. Wouldn't want to give anyone else a puncture!

Anybody else had any "I can't believe i don't have a puncture right now!" moments?

whyamihere

Every time I ride.

I haven't had a puncture in over 3 years, on any of the 7 or 8 bikes I've owned in that time.

Now, I know that after having said that, I'll get one. Well good, at least I won't be living in fear of the punctures coming to get me having forgotten about me for all this time!

chuckcork

Well, I can't believe that having found a front tyre was flat, with a close to inch long thorn through it, that I managed to ride on it like that for quite a distance without noticing that there was anything there, only noticing a few days later (pre-ride inspection) after the tube had deflated.

Tyre/tube must have sealed itself around the thorn enough that it became a slow puncture rather than the rapid one I've had from nails previously.

Frank the tank

Beware for you may now have disturbed the PUNCTURE GODS. :twisted:

I hope you haven't for they have a way of infiltrating your inner tubes.

AndyOgy

I normally avoid that cycle lane on Saturdays and Sundays for that very reason. Those numbskull chav's from West Street have got a lot to answer for.
The tyres on my new Allez only lasted a couple of weeks after riding through broken glass at the Level.
I don't normally ride anywhere around Brighton at the weekends. Usually just jump on the Mountain Bike and head out to the South Downs. Very few people, no traffic and no chavs.
Good to know that your Gatorskins held up though, they're what I now have fitted to the road bike.

Frank the tank

So Brighton's full of puffs and bottle smashin' chavs.

Glad I live in a dump of an ex-mining town.

AndyOgy

Frank the tank wrote:

So Brighton's full of puffs and bottle smashin' chavs.

Glad I live in a dump of an ex-mining town.

Err, yeah. Those puffs make cycling in Brighton really difficult.

What are you on about exactly?

Frank the tank

AndyOgy wrote:

Frank the tank wrote:

So Brighton's full of puffs and bottle smashin' chavs.

Glad I live in a dump of an ex-mining town.

Err, yeah. Those puffs make cycling in Brighton really difficult.

What are you on about exactly?

Nowt in particular Andy, I understood Brighton had more than a few homosexuals (no I'm not homophobic) but I was not aware there was a large bottle smashing chav element within the town.

jimycooper

lots of chavy pricks hear yes, but the majority of people are nice as in every other place in the world

Frank the tank

jimycooper wrote:

lots of chavy pricks hear yes, but the majority of people are nice as in every other place in the world

I'm sure they are may owd. The comment I made was just a tongue in cheek one, hence the smiley, no offence was meant to anyone and I appologise if I caused any.

AndyOgy

Ah, no worries Frank. I shoulda maybe put a smiley on my own comment. Brighton certainly is unique but I wouldn't have it any other way.