Re: First flat in a looooong time

pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> wrote:

On 2025-03-27, Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

 
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
 
On Saturday, I came out of Aldi to find my front tire flat.
 
On Monday, I walked to the Trailhouse and handed the wheel
to the mechanic with instructions to put in a new tube and
find out what had happened to the old one.
 
He showed me a crack at the base of the valve stem.   The
tube had died of old age!

 
It's kind of nice to know it was not a nail, I guess.
 
I think my last flat was a base of valve failure, too.
 
Pureheart in Aptos
 
 
 

 
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Still haven't put the wheel back on, and I want to ride to
Mary Anne's Place tomorrow.
 
 
 
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
 
What was predicted to be a good day for riding turned out to
be a good day for hanging out laundry.  I'd hoped to dash to
Kroger for potatoes, but after hanging sheets in a cold
wind, spending half an hour dressing for a fifteen-minute
ride didn't sound like much fun.
 

 

It’s one of the reasons I tend bin the MTB tubes, as the gap between
punctures is years, or occasionally if it’s a sticky valve even just
replace when I replaced tyres.

Had flat on the gravel bike at the last few miles, which didn’t seal or at
least not permanently, was a tyre I was planning on replacing in autumn so
just ordered a replacement as it’s worn flat and for a gravel tyre done
quite a few miles and has been patched and has number of slashes!

And has had multiple punctures which have sealed if not permanently had to
have patch or two.

But gravel tyres have hard life off road trying to balance speed and
protection.

Roger Merriman