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Bike tube etiquette
Zebee Johnstone wrote:
Friday wrote: Since the rear wheel follows almost exactly the same path as the front wheel it would seem to me that if the front wheel ran over a sharp object on the road (ie. broken glass) then the back wheel would run over it too. Taking two spare tubes is common sense. (Well at least to me it it's been my experience that the front wheel punctures far less often. Perhaps the front wheel runs over it and disturbs the object and the rear wheel then picks it up, perhaps there is more weight on the rear and so the object penetrates more easily. No idea, but I can't recall the last front wheel puncture, but I've had many rear wheel ones. Yup, what Zebee says is correct. On motorcycles, front wheel punctures are rare. I had a spate of rear wheel puntures many years ago. They stopped when I fitted a mudflap to the front mudguard. Apparently this knocks down the item the front wheel picks up. Theo |
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Bike tube etiquette
Zebee Johnstone wrote:
In aus.bicycle on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:24:22 +1100 DaveB wrote: Tex wrote: Why aren't *they* carrying a repair kit? Because there are a lot of gumby cyclists out there. You can either not help them and say suffer in your jocks (and I'm wondering when was the last time anyone heard that), or help them and suggest that in future they carry a spare tube or repair kit. I've met motorcyclists without tools, out miles from anywhere. They are the reason I carry a tubeless tyre repair kit even though all my bikes run tubes. Yes, when I have met someone and used my kit, it's cost me money. $12 or so for the CO2 and the plug. I've been offered money and I've just been offered thanks. Either way is fine with me because when I started riding the people I rode with taught me that we look after our own. How do I repay the bod who realised I wasn't in his mirror anymore and came back to look for me, found me unconscious and bleeding, called the ambulance, and found someone to look after my bike? A man I didn't know from Adam? A class bloke tho He did it because I was a biker and he was a biker and we look after our own. I can't pay him in money, but the times I've helped others before that and after it are the currency I pay him in. And the currency others pay me in. I dont always agree with you Zebee. But sometimes you are very very right Dave |
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