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Message started by jman on Jul 6^th, 2008, 4:52pm

Title: Mystrey flats plagued me again
Post by jman on Jul 6^th, 2008, 4:52pm

I had a good morning ride after I had to fix my 2nd flat in a row on my rear wheel.
I was lucky Sat while Eddie, Dianna and I rode to Grapevine, because when I got home and parked the Tango the rear wheel went down when I wasn't looking :-? So I took a long look at the tire but couldn't see anything poking through it??? :P So I put in my last good tube, pumped up the tire to 115 lbs and all looked ok. Well when I got up this morning, I decided it was a nice morning to ride in RLP, then noticed my rear tire was flat again! :-/ Since the Conti is so hard to put back on, I decided to use my Primo Racer which doesn't take an act of Congress to put on ;D and removed the conti and carefully looked for clues in the tire and tube to see what was causing me this grief.

Turns out the rim stuff on the wheel had failed in one spot and the tube would go into the little hole and pinch then pop. Fortunately for me, I had a fresh role of rim tape still on hand. Then I repaired the pinched tube and made it my temporary spare, now I am down to only 3 patches for road emergencies, so I went to the new Bicycles Inc on Harwood this afternoon to get a new tube and was delighted to see that they had 2 LWB Cycle Genus on hand. There is hope for them after all ;)

Now when I hit the trail in the morning, I will have a fresh new tube in my bag and that makes me feel a tad more secure.

That brings my total flats for the season to a half dozen. Sure hope that is the end of my flats for a while. :o

Title: Re: Mystrey flats plagued me again
Post by aikigreg on Jul 6^th, 2008, 6:49pm

That'll sure do it quick! I really like veloplugs, but they only work for tires with a certain spoke hole diameter.