The vengeful fairy

lost_in_thought
lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
edited June 2009 in Commuting chat
At last, after 4 years of London riding, she has come a-visiting...

On my way to rowing, a loud POP followed by a loud HISSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssss. Blast. Not a slow one then. I pull over, have a look, and lo and behold there is a drawing pin in my damn tyre! A drawing pin! FFS!

Of all the bits of road in all the world, I had to roll over that one. The one with a drawing pin on it.

So, my tyre now has a neat drawing pin imprint on it, and obviously a hole. This, I think, may have been what caused the puncture. :P

The question is, can I re-use the tyre?
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  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Why not?

    My tyre had a (big) thorn in it, which is larger than the pin part of a drawing pin and since then I have done about 4000 miles...
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Yup.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Yep you're fine. A small round hole is better than a bigger, longer cut, and I've got plenty of them with no worries!

    Unlucky though. I am clinging proudly to my "no punctures in a year/3000 miles" claim. see how long that lasts...
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  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    Yuh, I imagine we wouldn't bother with separate replaceable inners if we had to get a new tyre upon every p*ncture :)

    Should be fine, I imagine the rubber will just push back together again, I doubt you'd get a blowout due to any wee hole left by the pin!
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  • mountainroadie
    mountainroadie Posts: 244
    off course a drawing pin hole size is no problem
    not worth binning a tyre for .
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Hurrah!

    You can see from this inexperience how often I get punctures... this is my first for as long as I can remember.

    Oh apart from when some eejit slashed my tyres on the old commuter in '05. But I sure as hell didn't deal with that. And it doesn't count. So nyerr.

    Thaaaaaaaaaaaanks!

    *goes to put tyre back on*

    *yes, with a new tube. eeeeesh*
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  • doog442
    doog442 Posts: 370
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    At last, after 4 years of London riding, she has come a-visiting...

    On my way to rowing, a loud POP followed by a loud HISSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssss. Blast. Not a slow one then. I pull over, have a look, and lo and behold there is a drawing pin in my damn tyre! A drawing pin! FFS!

    Of all the bits of road in all the world, I had to roll over that one. The one with a drawing pin on it.

    So, my tyre now has a neat drawing pin imprint on it, and obviously a hole. This, I think, may have been what caused the puncture. :P

    The question is, can I re-use the tyre?


    the chance of a drawing pin going through the same hole again is minimal :wink: so yes use the tyre again...but if your confidence is bashed get a new one..... :roll:
  • AllTheGear
    AllTheGear Posts: 248
    The tyre's strength comes from the canvas/fabric/kevlar inside the rubber. This would just get pushed out of the way by the pin going through, and weakens no more than putting a pin through your clothing.

    You could always fill the hole with a dot of rubber cement.
    ... and no idea ...

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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Or fill the tyre with real cement.

    Did you manage to break two or three tubes when you replaced them? That's what I always seem to do. Bloody Presta valves.
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  • mrc1
    mrc1 Posts: 852
    I had a nightmare on Saturday. I had left my bike at work on Friday night as went for a few beers, so in a rash move i decided to go and get it on saturday morning on my way back from my friend's house. I call in at work (a very depressing experience as I already spend too much time there), get changed, take my bike out the rack, cycle across the underground car park and up the exit ramp and...."psssssssssshhhhhhhhhh".

    Due to me never carrying the crucial 15mm spanner to get my back wheel out I limp to the On yer Bike up the road, buy a few token things in order to lessen the guilt of borrowing tools, change the tube without too many problems and set off for home. Get about a mile away from home and hear a seriously loud "Ping"...... and I have snapped a spoke!!!!! No idea why this happened and is my first one in several thousand miles of cycling!

    Luckily was able to get a spare and replace it on the day, but I ended up spending the entire day monkeying around with the bike when I clearly should have just left it at work!!

    Oh and at LiT - I am clearly jinxing myself but my rear tyre (Conti Gatorskin - apparently not that good haha) has now had three seperate punctures from glass, nails etc and I havent had any problem with reusing it although it is clearly cursed :?
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    So far a nice clean tube change, no broken valves... lucky I had moved tyres and tubes onto the new wheels, so I had some practice!

    We shall see when I head out tomorrow....
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    You do know you can just patch inner tubes they don't have to be replaced every time.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    itboffin wrote:
    You do know you can just patch inner tubes they don't have to be replaced every time.

    And you wonder why you have a puncture every time you breathe near a bike...
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  • salsarider79
    salsarider79 Posts: 828
    Just remember the the vengeful fairy reads bike radar. The fact that I've had two punctures in over 7000miles (My computer on my road bike went awol at 6000miles, and that was last year, then there's also the MTB too...) is down to pure luck. Mind you one of those was when I split my rear rim ( :oops: ).

    Now I've reminded the vengeful fairy I'm still riding, I will be carrying spanner, tubes, patches, TWO pumps, full tool kit and will spend time doing various incantations, surrounding myself with crystals.....Whats the bet my rim will go tomorrow? :roll:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    itboffin wrote:
    You do know you can just patch inner tubes they don't have to be replaced every time.

    Yeah, but it's a hassle and they're not that pricey.
    FCN 7/1
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    salsarider79 wrote:
    Just remember the the vengeful fairy reads bike radar. The fact that I've had two punctures in over 7000miles (My computer on my road bike went awol at 6000miles, and that was last year, then there's also the MTB too...) is down to pure luck. Mind you one of those was when I split my rear rim ( :oops: ).

    Now I've reminded the vengeful fairy I'm still riding, I will be carrying spanner, tubes, patches, TWO pumps, full tool kit and will spend time doing various incantations, surrounding myself with crystals.....Whats the bet my rim will go tomorrow? :roll:
    Riding over these would be a mistake. The PF loves a good laugh.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    It's like the time I got a lucky rabbit's foot caught in my spokes and went ars3 over t!t...
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    You do know you can just patch inner tubes they don't have to be replaced every time.

    Yeah, but it's a hassle and they're not that pricey.

    think of the credit crunch :lol:
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    itboffin wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    You do know you can just patch inner tubes they don't have to be replaced every time.

    Yeah, but it's a hassle and they're not that pricey.

    think of the credit crunch :lol:

    I'm with the yokel on this one. I've got three patches on one of my present spare tubes. I patch them on the basis that, if you do get a bad deflation which opens the tyre tread quite a bit, I don't want to waste a new tube on it for the purposes of getting into work/getting home. I carry three spare tubes with me.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Enough of this ideal chit chat i'm off to work (late) but before I do I'll just go and run some broken glass into my tyres and let some air out :twisted:

    Then leave my PF repair kit at home and carry a small hip flask and some offerings (glue patches + co2) to she who must not be teased.
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  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    I think I might start carrying patches to assist all the riders I keep seeing at the moment with no repair kits and 3+ miles to walk home. So many shiney bikes and so little idea that tyres can get punctures. :roll:
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  • gert_lush
    gert_lush Posts: 634
    ......There must be something in the air!!!

    Yesterday I woke up to find the fairy had also visited me, I was gutted, 1st puncture in the Galaxy and I have had her 12months and done about 4000 miles, I was hoping the tyres would wear out before I got the 1st one but nevermind.
    Fortunately the advantages of having 'a few' bikes is that you just grab another one to get to work :D:D:D I knew there was a practiacl reason to having them
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    This is what you get if you mock the PF

    A couple of miles from home my left foot starts lifting away from the pedals so I think to myself oh the cleat must be loose a few more yards on and the left crank arm comes clean off still attached to my shoe :shock:

    Be warned the PF has many friends
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  • Christophe3967
    Christophe3967 Posts: 1,200
    biondino wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    You do know you can just patch inner tubes they don't have to be replaced every time.

    And you wonder why you have a puncture every time you breathe near a bike...

    :lol:

    +1 You'd have thought he'd have got the message by now. :roll:
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Christophe3967 wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    You do know you can just patch inner tubes they don't have to be replaced every time.

    And you wonder why you have a puncture every time you breathe near a bike...

    :lol:

    +1 You'd have thought he'd have got the message by now. :roll:

    Back in your box TRAIN boy
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Well, the tube's currently in the bin... maybe I'll have a go at patching it, but I don't care for having to change it again when my patch fails. Note the 'when'. Not 'if'.

    And I was zooming in to work this AM and noticed things seemed a little bit rattly, did a quick visual check and noticed that one of my front wheelnuts has fallen off.

    Good.

    :roll:
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    cjcp wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    You do know you can just patch inner tubes they don't have to be replaced every time.

    Yeah, but it's a hassle and they're not that pricey.

    think of the credit crunch :lol:

    I'm with the yokel on this one. I've got three patches on one of my present spare tubes. I patch them on the basis that, if you do get a bad deflation which opens the tyre tread quite a bit, I don't want to waste a new tube on it for the purposes of getting into work/getting home. I carry three spare tubes with me.

    I can't believe some of you just chuck tubes away after 1 use! I've had tubes for years and years. When I was a broke youngster, some of my tubes were almost glued together by patches, but they still worked fine. No point chucking the tube after 1 little pin prick!
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  • jedster
    jedster Posts: 1,717
    Can I just point out that many people have been using the p word in full in this thread. now I'm not really a superstitious type but that is just needlessly reckless :lol:
    And I was zooming in to work this AM and noticed things seemed a little bit rattly, did a quick visual check and noticed that one of my front wheelnuts has fallen off.

    Never done that but I did once notice that one wheel nut was working loose. Scared the bejesus out of me. The idea of my front wheel falling out as I take a speed bump quickly is horrid to contemplate (shudder)
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Well when I got to work I picked the bike up and gave it a good shake, the wheel didn't seem to be going anywhere so I think it'll be fine to ride home.

    I've got some spare ones there, you see...
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  • AllTheGear
    AllTheGear Posts: 248
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Well when I got to work I picked the bike up and gave it a good shake, the wheel didn't seem to be going anywhere so I think it'll be fine to ride home.

    I've got some spare ones there, you see...

    What are your unicycle skills like? ;-)
    ... and no idea ...

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