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  • So, Friday Dilema/ Poll (Commuting home content)
  • brakes
    Free Member

    Two options:
    1 – ride road bike 7 miles home in the rain with a tyre with a 1cm gash in the sidewall patched up with Evans’ appalling adhesive patches and about 50psi in so it doesn’t burst (30-40 mins)
    2 – get the horrible horrible trains then the bus home (1 hour) and leave the bike at work knowing that I’ll have to pick it up at some point over the weekend

    You decide.

    theflatboy
    Free Member

    I would go for 1, but bolster the tyre boot with a bit of plastic or cardboard judiciously glued on the inside of the boot to give even more strength to it. It’s not that far!

    brakes
    Free Member

    it’s not a tyre boot it’s a glueless patch for tubes – I could slip a bit of plastic in there though, that might help.

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    Stick a boot in it.

    TPTcruiser
    Full Member

    1.
    Though it is chucking it down here in Sheffield and I am thinking of the train myself…

    phiiiiil
    Full Member

    Start riding; if it does fail, pretend it’s a cross race and run the rest.

    brakes
    Free Member

    Stick a boot in it.

    don’t have one and the LBS* over the road don’t sell them (!!!!!)

    *I’m really hating Evans right now

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    crisp bag etc works fine.

    lerk
    Free Member

    Does the lbs across the road not sell tyres?

    theflatboy
    Free Member

    If the tyre’s a write-off anyway, just get them to price match the best online price for a replacement tyre…

    brakes
    Free Member

    They charge £40 for the tyre I want which I can get for £25.
    I also need to get my wife a Valentines gift so am time poor.

    thomthumb
    Free Member

    plastic from a milk bottle makes a great tyre boot.

    just chop a square to the right sort of size.

    Superficial
    Free Member

    1 or Taxi…

    brakes
    Free Member

    I went for 1. Using a Meningitis Trust car sticker as a boot. Rode home stood up to reduce the weight on the back wheel. Fortune favours the brave and there was not only free choclate in Hotel Chocolat but a monster tail wind (with rain) all the way home!

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