Arrrgggghhhhh F'kn Puncture

[MikeH]

Had a crap day today, riding into work, half term, dry road, mucho throttle when all of a sudden bam, front end went wobblier than Biances Butt Talk about crap myself the skid mark was a mile long and that was nothing to do with the tyres

A lucky escape !!!

Anyhow, after I pulled myself together I pushed the bike about 500 yards to a layby and called the missus, when she arrived I got her to drop me at Homebase and picked up a thing of tyre weld stuff, got back whacked it in and started heading towards town and hopefully get the thing repaired properly. Only about 3 miles out so no big deal.

1 mile later flat as a fart again, what a waste of £7

So pissed off I thought stuff it and crawled along the bicycle lane at 5 MPH until I got to town and the nearest bike shop. Fair play they dropped what they were doing and pulled me into the shop, spent a 1.5hrs stripping, cleaning out the gunge and fixing it, only problem was they hadn't got a road rated tube, only some tubes marked "Not for Highway Use" in big f'k off writing, but being stuck I told them to stick one in for now anyway.

So 2.5hrs late for work and £37 worse off, I wasn't too chuffed

What a day
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[SoND]

Any damage to the rim?
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[MikeH]

Luckily no, but the tyre and tube will need changing as soon as I can afford it. So for the time being going to have to keep it steady as the back is nearly gone too so next month is going to be expensive
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