Forum | punctures

Post edited 9:14 pm — May 1, 2011 by Duchy Wheeler

anthonycrook,

Maybe I’ve been very fortunate or lucky, but I haven’t had a puncture in the 18 months or so that I’ve had my Guv’nor using roads, cycle paths, tracks and old railway lines, suppose I’m now tempting fate! 

I’m very diligent about checking tyre pressures to 65psi (recommend pressure for the Schwalbe Delta Cruiser tyres) at least once a week at ambient temperature and for debris embedded in the tyre tread during and after rides. Thinking your pressures are a tad too low at 55psi. As usual Sheldon Brown’s website is a font of all cycling knowledge see:   http://www.sheldonbrown.com/tires.html   

Safe rides, One & All.

DW.

Sir, have you had the tyre completely off the rim to mend the punctures?

If not, and the damage is always in roughly the same area of the tube, the offending object could still, as you say, be lodged within the tyre.

If not, and the damage is in different areas of the tube, you’ve been rather unlucky.

I hav’nt had a flat on the Guv yet but I do always carry a spare tube, just in case, and I’ve managed to find (at Halfords) a Boardman compact pump which fits, along with tube, spanner and three plastic tyre levers (also Halfords) into the small Brooks leather saddlebag.

I run my tyres as hard as I can pump them up. 

Off for a spin ’round the dale now, what’s the betting I get a puncture?

dt 

well this morning I noticed that the tube I replaced yesterday had also deflated, so I need to start forensically examining my wheel and tyre. I just hope I find something!