2013 Black Cats Award
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Summernight » Tue Aug 06, 2013 1:10 pm
2 for me for 2013.
Yesterday evening: I come down from work and the tyre is flat. On investigation looks like the tube has failed at the valve - this is the tube that was inserted in March this year on the rear tyre and has been giving me some troubles when pumping up. Fortunately for me when the LBS switched everything to my new wheelset they put the rear tyre and this tube on the front wheel, so I didn't have to get messy with cassettes and chains fixing it yesterday evening.
I did it myself this time (with a bit of much appreciated help from a fellow worker who works in the same building). Now I can change a car tyre and a bike tyre.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby jasonc » Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:59 pm
front tyre went down instantly after running over something. stopped pulled out the tube - massive cut in it
found the corresponding cut in the tyre. bloody hell
used the $5 note trick. JUST made it home
so one from the cut and one when I went to take out the wheel (went BANG when I just touched the tyre)
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby mikesbytes » Sat Aug 10, 2013 3:22 pm
Finished my class at the gym, got on my bike and found the tyre was already flat. Went down while parked at the gym.
Intrusion into the rear tyre. Seems the rain gods have teamed up with the puncture gods. Found the cause, a tiny piece of glass, so small it was almost missed.
Put a new tyre on when I got home to appease the puncture gods
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Sat Aug 10, 2013 6:10 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby g-boaf » Sun Aug 11, 2013 1:32 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby queequeg » Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:44 pm
I dunno, with a multi tool I would set the bike up as a single speed on a suitable gear.g-boaf wrote:Not me this time, but a poor lady on the M7 cycleway in Sydney- near Elizabeth Drive. The derailleur hanger had completely sheared off. She'd by that time taken off her shoes and was walking in her socks. I stopped to see if everything was okay, but there was nothing anyone could do.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby g-boaf » Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:50 pm
If I had one - I might have done so. I shall get one.queequeg wrote:I dunno, with a multi tool I would set the bike up as a single speed on a suitable gear.g-boaf wrote:Not me this time, but a poor lady on the M7 cycleway in Sydney- near Elizabeth Drive. The derailleur hanger had completely sheared off. She'd by that time taken off her shoes and was walking in her socks. I stopped to see if everything was okay, but there was nothing anyone could do.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby queequeg » Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:53 pm
.g-boaf wrote:If I had one - I might have done so. I shall get one.queequeg wrote:I dunno, with a multi tool I would set the bike up as a single speed on a suitable gear.g-boaf wrote:Not me this time, but a poor lady on the M7 cycleway in Sydney- near Elizabeth Drive. The derailleur hanger had completely sheared off. She'd by that time taken off her shoes and was walking in her socks. I stopped to see if everything was okay, but there was nothing anyone could do.
I have a crank bros 17 tool for each bike, which includes a chain breaker/joiner, though I also carry spare quick links and pins. Very handy!
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby jasonc » Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:00 pm
commuter tyre this time - first one ever on a marathon plus
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Lukeyboy » Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:10 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Sat Aug 31, 2013 10:39 pm
It had been soooo long, the tube had adhered to the tyre and I had to use the levers the whole way around the wheel to get the bead off, then peel the tyre off the tube before finally pulling the damned tube out. It appears some quartz embedded in the tyre had finally killed the tube, so a few extra minutes digging out the stones before finally getting moving again.
The scary part was that it was a new vittoria tube from the box with removable valve and I hadn't remembered to tighten up the valve - and with CO2 the valve usually shrinks and unscrews with the inflation head. Luckily... not this time.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Mon Sep 02, 2013 1:06 pm
+1, 19, 4km into my ride today, hammering at 50kph on the flat when a giant staple ended up stuck in the rear tyre - fully deflated well before I could stop. I had to walk about 20m across wet grass to a carpark to change the tube, ended up with dirt and mud all over me because I didn't think to carry the bike.
Why me? Why meeeeeeeeeee!??!!!!!
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby jcjordan » Mon Sep 02, 2013 1:35 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby mikesbytes » Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:14 pm
Another flat on the way home from the gym Friday morning. Caused by an intrusion and it typical fashion couldn't find the offending object so I'm assuming it got ejected. Hasn't gone down since
And I patched about 20 tubes the other day....
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:51 pm
Bloody again!
+1, 20. Thought the front. tyre was a bit soft on the way home, no question at all later tonight, a nick in the front tube slowly letting the air out. I m so over this!
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Cruiserman » Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:33 am
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:32 am
You need to move over this side of town. Smashing bottles seems to be the new sport.Cruiserman wrote:Plenty of glass all over the place in Canberra at the moment, but still nothing to report re punctures on the Hutchinson Intensive Tubeless. Must have something to do with the lack of tubes. Still dont carry C02 a pump, an emergency tube, still ride through glass.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Cruiserman » Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:02 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby wombatK » Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:42 pm
Rear tyre punctured by a metal shaving about 2.5 km from home on a 65 km ride. Pretty easy
to find and fix, as the metal shaving protruded a good 2 mm inside tyre.
It's been 3500 km of riding, and 2230 km since the previous puncture on the particular conti GP4000s.
A lot more of riding has been on-road (particularly M5) and less off road on M7 cycleway, so I'm pretty happy with the puncture performance of the conti's.
Cheers
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Thu Sep 19, 2013 10:38 am
At least it wasn't raining.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Fri Sep 20, 2013 5:48 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Fri Sep 20, 2013 7:08 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby jcjordan » Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:32 am
Got to love Canberratwizzle wrote:Having a slack year, heading to ~ 13k-k's. Rode ~ 150km in Lorne last weekend, saw one patch of glass. Here... there is a coating of glass on all roads.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Mustang » Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:49 am
8 for the year, two on the Conti,s.
I've now fitted Schwalbe Durao Plus.
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