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Pocket a Punctured Tube

Today’s QT comes to us from Premium Member Kerry Irons. It’s a follow-on to another recent tip. Here’s what Kerry wrote:

As a follow up to the August 11 Quick Tip Keep Your Repair Kit Up to Date, I have gotten into the habit of stuffing my punctured inner tube into my jersey pocket rather than putting it back into the seat bag.

From too much experience, I know I can forget, just as Russ Wood did, and neglect to patch that tube.

It’s ungainly and not sleek to carry a used tube stuffed into your jersey pocket, but with my punctured tube in my pocket (instead of “hidden away” in my seat bag) I’m 100% guaranteed to patch the punctured tube when I get home.

THEN – and only then – does it go back into the seat bag.


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  1. larry english says

    November 3, 2016 at 12:35 pm

    the risk is getting the jersey dirty from tire/wheel gunk.. but good idea anyway..

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  2. Craig Farrell says

    November 3, 2016 at 3:03 pm

    Patch the tube and put it back in the wheel. Unpatched tube goes in the seat bag.

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  3. Anonymous says

    November 3, 2016 at 4:38 pm

    “From too much experience, I know I can forget, just as Russ Wood did, and neglect to patch that tube.”
    Been there, done that.

    Reply
  4. Kerry Irons says

    November 3, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    Craig Farrell: all of my tubes have patches, typically several patches. The tubes on the bike have patches and the tube in the seat bag has patches. Every 40,000 miles or so I might have a patch fail so I consider a patched tube to be just as reliable as a new tube. I throw out a tube when it fails, not when it needs a patch.

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  5. Jim Mason says

    November 4, 2016 at 5:30 am

    I carry 3 tubes (the enemy is Tribulus terrestris fruits…also known as goat heads in New Mexico). I put the defective tube in my pocket, replace it in my saddle bag when I get home. The defective tube goes to my sun room where it is patched after I have 3 defectives. Three patches is the max before tube is tossed.

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