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2013 Black Cats Award
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Timeonabike » Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:14 pm
A piece of glass from a king brown in the back tyre.
Close to home thankfully so made it back,
Bah.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Ozkaban » Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:43 pm
Slow leak that I couldn't identify that would leave the tyre flat after 2 days. Ended up replacing the tube with a brand newie and got a flat next ride (this morning).
I'm hoping I just started strongly this year and will peter out (much like my sprint

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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby birdbrain » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:56 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby pacra » Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:46 pm
Hoping not to post here for a long time to come
Tally = zero
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Big_Red » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:43 am
Black cat = 1
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby birdbrain » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:26 pm
Big_Red wrote:
Might have something to do with the rubbish Continental UltraSport tyre that i'm using, which are absolutely useless for puncture protection. Rear conti tyre was binned late 2012 after only 700km after the tread separated and bulged.
Must say I hav'nt had the best run out of mine either. Always the rear tyre to. I just replaced the rear after 2 months use because the cuts in it were so deep and the sidewall had a gash in it. I will probably go back to Rubinos as I seemed to get a fair run out of them on the Trek.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:01 pm

Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2
...real cyclists don't have squeaky chains...
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Ozkaban » Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:21 am
5 Warnesy
4 jcjordan, Ozkaban
2 birdbrain, Shred931, twizzle
1 __PG__, Big_Red, breezer1, clydesmcdale, dungee, familyguy, g-boaf, gururug, lachlanfry, Lukeyboy, Timeonabike
0 Cruiserman, Dan, jasonc, lump_a_charcoal, Mulger Bill, pacra, rangersac
If I've missed anything, please let me know as I'll just use these totals to build on later.
Cheers,
Dave
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby JohnJoyner » Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:11 pm
1 for me.
A few weeks ago now. Got up in the morning, checked the tyres, the rear had deflated to about 80psi overnight... Weird, I thought. Pumped it back up & took off. Made it all the way to work, no dramas. (not that I noticed anyway). Got the bike for the ride home & hadn't given the leak a second thought... Checked the rear & it was completely flat. No idea where the puncture came from, repaired it & also now have new tyres as the old ones were rather thin.

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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:32 pm

+1, 3. Piece of glass from the look of the hole in the rear tyre, must have been close to home because I rolled into the driveway before realising something was wrong. I blame the damp roads from earlier rain plus excessive amounts of glass, I'm finding a new patch every day or two at the moment, and they seem to be deliberately targeting the on-road cycle lanes.

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...real cyclists don't have squeaky chains...
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby martinjs » Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:55 am
Aiming for no punctures for 2013.

Martin
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Ozkaban » Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:51 am
Got back to my bike yesterday after work and the front was flat. Made me late for an appt, which was annoying.
Found a pin hole in the tube. No idea what caused it.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Sparx » Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:36 am
Luckily I am not the superstitious type.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby JohnJoyner » Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:27 pm
Was doing some stretching & looked at the bike.. Another slow leak flat on the rear & with the new Gatorskins on... Found the culprit, a thin, long piece of wire. Who knows where or when I picked that up.
On the positive side, my times for replacing the inner tube are dropping.

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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Mustang » Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:40 pm
JohnJoyner wrote:+1 for me. Total 2.
Was doing some stretching & looked at the bike.. Another slow leak flat on the rear & with the new Gatorskins on... Found the culprit, a thin, long piece of wire. Who knows where or when I picked that up.
On the positive side, my times for replacing the inner tube are dropping.
These long thin pieces of wire are from worn out radial car tyres!

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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Ozkaban » Wed Feb 13, 2013 7:55 pm
Getting seriously sick of this already! Had a 1cm slice taken out of the tyre on the way to work yesterday. Turns out a tiny nick went all the way through. Went for a ride at lunch and the tyre was down to 50psi, so swapped the tube yet again and patched up the old one. I pushed a patch in between the tyre and tube to provide a smidge more protection should something hit that spot but I think the tyre might be gone. Bikebug.com.au have GP4000s for $36.35 until Sunday so I've grabbed a couple of spares. I ordered today and they've already been dispatched

OK, time for someone else to take the lead in this 'comp'...
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby cerb » Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:58 am

Punctured the tyre AND the rim!
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Ozkaban » Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:56 pm
cerb wrote:A guy down at crits last Sunday got a bit of a puncture...
Punctured the tyre AND the rim!
Far out! That's an expensive puncture! I don't imagine you could repair that sort of thing...
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby cerb » Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:06 am
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