Are you too posh to patch?

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  • El Gordo
    El Gordo Posts: 394
    Finally I've had my Dragon's Den idea.

    All the lazy non-patchers can send me their punctured tubes. I'll pay 10p a tube.

    I'll fix them and sell them on to all the "a patched tube is as good as new" types for, say, 50p. I figure I only have to do a few hundred a day before I can quit my job. That would only take a couple of hours which would give me a bit of time to ride my bike (if I wasn't fed up with the sight of rubber).
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    El Gordo wrote:
    Finally I've had my Dragon's Den idea.

    All the lazy non-patchers can send me their punctured tubes. I'll pay 10p a tube.

    I'll fix them and sell them on to all the "a patched tube is as good as new" types for, say, 50p. I figure I only have to do a few hundred a day before I can quit my job. That would only take a couple of hours which would give me a bit of time to ride my bike (if I wasn't fed up with the sight of rubber).

    No way are we falling for that. You just want rubber doncha ?

    Bad boy, dirty boy in your bed. :D
  • Lucky Douglas
    Lucky Douglas Posts: 155
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Pep wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Pep wrote:
    Marlin151 wrote:
    I was roundly castigated by bike guides on Mallorca for repairing my tubes. Don't do it, they said. They have first hand experience of watching the effect of patches failing at a critical time at the end of long fast descents. Hot weather plus heat build up, esp. for less experienced descenders (ie use their brakes a lot like me) = potential carnage if you have a patched front tube and it fails as you roll into the last hairpin.

    So bear this in mind if you're planning trips abroad with fast / long mountain descents.

    Use fresh tubes. :wink:

    I rode hundreds of thousands of miles in hot weather with tubes with many patches.
    It's never happened to me that a patched tube failed.

    They clearly haven't been patched by me.

    Can't see how anyone could do a bad patching job.

    Find the puncture, sometimes it's so big that just need to inflate the tyre and you spot it, otherwise put the inflated tube in a bucket of water.

    Then dry the tube and make a mark with the felt pen round the puncture.

    Then from an old tube cut a roundish patch half inch diameter.

    Apply glue on the tube.

    Press the patch, leave it pressed with a peg overnight.

    Next morning before going to work inflate it.

    After work check it, it'll still be inflated.

    Job done.

    6 stages, involved scissors, buckets, other tubes, water, glue.

    Plenty of room for errors to be made.

    All sounds a bit Blue Peter..........
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    All sounds a bit Blue Peter..........

    Wey hey, thanks for mentioning Blue Peter! It reminded me of the things you can do with an old washing-up liquid bottle. I've just cut out a couple of tyre boots from an empty bottle that I hadn't got round to throwing out and they're now nestling in my puncture repair bag - I've been meaning to do that for ages, just in case. :lol:
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  • Brassknocker
    Brassknocker Posts: 209
    What about condoms?

    ....don't tell me you guys use a new one every time.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Brassknocker wrote:
    What about condoms?

    ....don't tell me you guys use a new one every time.

    I do if the old one's got a hole in it.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • bikedibley.com
    bikedibley.com Posts: 22
    I work in the trade, so inner tubes come very cheap. I carry patches, only for when all my tubes run out.

    CRC have tubes from under £2, so I can't be bothered to repair tubes.

    Click here for tubes at CRC
  • Mark Elvin
    Mark Elvin Posts: 997
    Replace unles running low on spare tudes.

    Oh the decadence of it.
    2012 Cannondale Synapse
  • Pep
    Pep Posts: 501
    bikedibley.com wrote:
    I work in the trade, so inner tubes come very cheap. I carry patches, only for when all my tubes run out.

    CRC have tubes from under £2, so I can't be bothered to repair tubes.

    Click here for tubes at CRC

    SUpermarket bags are cheap too. But I still think is good to recycle because is good for the environment.
    If brand new tubes were free I would still patch.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    bikedibley.com wrote:
    I work in the trade, so inner tubes come very cheap. I carry patches, only for when all my tubes run out.

    CRC have tubes from under £2, so I can't be bothered to repair tubes.

    Click here for tubes at CRC

    Pedant alert

    CRC do have tubes from under £2 but you have to spend £3 or more for a tube to fit a 700x23 tyre
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    Pep wrote:
    bikedibley.com wrote:
    I work in the trade, so inner tubes come very cheap. I carry patches, only for when all my tubes run out.

    CRC have tubes from under £2, so I can't be bothered to repair tubes.

    Click here for tubes at CRC

    SUpermarket bags are cheap too. But I still think is good to recycle because is good for the environment.
    If brand new tubes were free I would still patch.

    +1. Good man.
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