Good luck with that...
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Just popped out for lunch, and on the way back walked past some bloke outside Evans who appeared to be attempting to fix a puncture without removing his hub-geared back wheel from the frame.
I thought I'd give him the benefit of the doubt, realising it's possible to repair a tube without taking the wheel off, even though his close-fitting full length guards looked like they might make things very awkward. However, I saw a mate heading back in that direction, and apparently ten minutes later the chap had managed to insert the valve of a new tube into the wheel and was trying to work out how to get it past the frame.
Can't help but wonder how he's getting on.
I thought I'd give him the benefit of the doubt, realising it's possible to repair a tube without taking the wheel off, even though his close-fitting full length guards looked like they might make things very awkward. However, I saw a mate heading back in that direction, and apparently ten minutes later the chap had managed to insert the valve of a new tube into the wheel and was trying to work out how to get it past the frame.
Can't help but wonder how he's getting on.
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Nip back out there and check. Offer a helping hand will ya :shock:0
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You could lend him a pair of scissors.
This way he could cut the tube and feed it through.
Simples.Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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Two things:
1) presumably you mean he was trying to change the tube, since I nearly always mend my punctures without taking the wheel off.
2) In my dim distant memory I seem to have a recollection of striaight tubes being available ie non-circular so that you can replace the tube without taking off the wheel. Did I imagine it?0 -
He needs a cobra tube unless it was 700c rim."Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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he could just patch-up the tube instead of trying to replace it with a new one, he could do that without taking the wheel off."It is not impossible, its just improbable"
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will3 wrote:Two things:
1) presumably you mean he was trying to change the tube, since I nearly always mend my punctures without taking the wheel off.
2) In my dim distant memory I seem to have a recollection of striaight tubes being available ie non-circular so that you can replace the tube without taking off the wheel. Did I imagine it?
Now that is a strange but good idea!Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome0 -
linsen wrote:will3 wrote:Two things:
1) presumably you mean he was trying to change the tube, since I nearly always mend my punctures without taking the wheel off.
2) In my dim distant memory I seem to have a recollection of striaight tubes being available ie non-circular so that you can replace the tube without taking off the wheel. Did I imagine it?
Now that is a strange but good idea!
google cobra tube"Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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linsen wrote:will3 wrote:Two things:
1) presumably you mean he was trying to change the tube, since I nearly always mend my punctures without taking the wheel off.
2) In my dim distant memory I seem to have a recollection of striaight tubes being available ie non-circular so that you can replace the tube without taking off the wheel. Did I imagine it?
Now that is a strange but good idea!0 -
nicklouse wrote:linsen wrote:will3 wrote:Two things:
1) presumably you mean he was trying to change the tube, since I nearly always mend my punctures without taking the wheel off.
2) In my dim distant memory I seem to have a recollection of striaight tubes being available ie non-circular so that you can replace the tube without taking off the wheel. Did I imagine it?
Now that is a strange but good idea!
google cobra tube
I did, I see you can, never seen one in a shop - are they practical?0 -
You're all wrong! He was obviously using Möbius tyres and a set compatible tubes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip0 -
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