2012 Black Cat Awards
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby Kev365428 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:01 pm
+1
New Total = 7 at 415km/flat.
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby johnny99 » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:43 pm
Riding to work in the fog this morning enjoying how quiet the road was when there was a loud bang and the all too familiar feel of a rapid deflation of the rear tyre. Turns out I had run over a piece of metal which put a large hole in the tyre and tube.
As I was only a km from work it was quicker to push the bike than attempt to fix it.
At the rate of punctures above it looks like I have joined the ranks of the gatorskins worst tyre ever camp.
As it was a public holiday I now have to fix it on Tuesday after getting a lift home with a workmate.
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby BarryTas » Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:12 am
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby Mustang » Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:51 pm
3x tyres also.
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby Redbull » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:53 pm
5 year to date
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby Strawburger » Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:11 am
Either there was someone out lining up smashed glass across the road in 4 areas on wilson st newtown or mr recycling man dumped a load of glass on the road on pickups
start total = 6 +1
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1x racer (0/1 conti gp4000s new for 2012)
2x fixie rear (conti gp4000s - this one retired after discovering chunks out of the back from emergency stopping)
4x fixie front (kenda koncept - retired after 9400kms!)
New total = 7 (AT) 336kms per flat
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby open roader » Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:01 pm
After 4,800km on 4 different bikes over 4 years plus a few hundered un-metered kilometers it took Friday the 13th for me to cop a flat tyre on the road. 18km into a 60+km ride I was riding up a gentle slope wondering why I could only pull a cadence of 85 in a gear I usually pull 95 up the same hill. I felt fit, very fresh for this stage of the ride and then it dawned on me to look down at my rear tyre........ Shock horror, first flat in approx 5000km of riding.......
Foolish git me didn't bring levers and a spare tube so 2.5 hours in the glorious sunshine before the cavalry arrived.......so I had plenty of time to inspect the tyre for puncture marks but it was an 'inside job' and being a latex tube it took several hundred metres for the deflation to complete to the point where the rear began squirming under my weight..........phew....
95psi inside a 25c tyre (I weigh 76kg) is clearly not enough pressure to avoid a pinch flat on a lumpy rural chip seal road....... tubulars here we come??
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby grantw » Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:28 pm
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby HiChris » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:38 pm
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby briztoon » Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:45 pm
And Dizz laughed and asked why I carry 3 tubes when I had the first flat today.
I think that makes 5 for the year so far.
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby jgon286 » Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:34 pm
Not as regular a rider as some here, so it's taken a while to get my first flat while actually riding. Heard a 'pop' and then the high pitched pss, pss, pss as I pedalled thinking, 'What's that sound?'
Funnily enough, it took me more time looking for the puncture point than it did to replace the tube, pump it up and get going. In the end I didn't find the offending glass, metal, whatever. Still held okay though. Shortened the ride time by 10 minutes! Dammit!
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby BarryTas » Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:23 pm
this one was in the race that was made for me, and i only just got out of being put up a grade
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:45 pm
That makes two in 4500 km'z.
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby HiChris » Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:07 pm
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby PA » Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:50 am
Note: Do not remove 3 Corner Jacks or other foreign bodies from your tyres until after your ride.
+1 = 2
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby mikesbytes » Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:30 pm
Thin piece of wire, possibly from the bead of a car/truck
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby Jake » Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:46 pm
1 on MTB after derailleur broke and took out the rear tyre.
2 on a 120km ride on Saturday
1 front flatty in the pouring rain about 2 weeks ago
1 before that can't remember the details.
I think I now have 8 for the year.
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2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:56 pm
3 for 2012.
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby Redbull » Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:08 pm
6 year to date
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby mikesbytes » Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:32 pm
Slow leak in the front this time
Seems I'm back unfortunately
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby Kev365428 » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:36 pm
Something went through the rear, but I couldn't find it.
+1
New Total = 8
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Re: 2012 Black Cat Awards
Postby twizzle » Tue May 01, 2012 11:43 am
No punctures for me for a while and I had an 'off' on Sunday which will keep me off the bike for a while until my shoulder heals.
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