HELP: Where To Put Spare Tire

Hello, Tom Kunich!
You wrote:

How long is a ride long enough to consider a spare tire?


First off, typically you just need a spare inner tube, not a
spare tire. This is handy since carrying a spare tube is much
more conveinent than a spare tire. It is really, really rare
you'll ever get a puncture that requres a new tire. Some really
paranoid folks carry a strip of duct tape to make an emergency
tire repair (just in case).

IMO, it isn't so much the milage vs where you will be riding. I
usually carry a spare tube + pump + levers + patch kit when I am
biking out into the country, where if I get a flat I'd have to
wait a really long time for a friend to come pick me up. In my
area, typically this means a ride of ~40+ miles or so.

On the other hand, if I am biking around the city, I usually
don't bother with a spare since I can always hop a bus or grab a
ride with minimal waiting.
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On Jun 8, 7:37 am, "Tom Kunich" cyclintom@yahoo. com wrote:
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http://www.ucolick.org/~bjw/misc/rbt/badflat.jpg

I had one that went straight in and rammed a hole through rim half-way
between two spoke holes. It went in so deeply and tightly that I had to get
a screwdriver from someone in the group and unscrew it to get it out.

10 years later we were sitting around in an outdoor coffee shop and started
talking about that and there was a guy there who I'd given the wheels to who
was still using it with the extra spoke hole. They were mounted on the bike
he was riding!

I had a nail going through the tire, tube and rim tape into the spoke
hole. I kept chaning tubes and having blowouts. I couldn't figure out
why until I saw the hole in the rim tape. When I went home and was
patching the tubes I noticed that one was punctured in two opposite
sides. Thats when I realized that the nail had gone through the tire,
tube and rim tape.