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Noticed the front tyre on my commuter was loosing a tiny bit of pressure this week. Ridden on it for 2,3, maybe 4 days, but last night I thought I'd better check it out.
(Aplogies for crap phone pics, but you get the idea)
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FFS!!! OMG??!! WTF?!?! etc....
How the hell does that work then? Surely that should have gone POP!? 😯
It was a big thorn, not a nail. The tyre was at 60psi, and lost maybe 20-25psi over a week. I'm still amazed, TBH. 🙂
Get a life!
seriously 🙄
Your prick is nearly and inch long! 😆 But you tell her it is at least 6! 😯
Did you maybe think the thorn was plugging the hole? Looks fairly normal to me...
Peter has the [u]best slow punctures of any of us[/u] and all you haters can suck his balls. 😈
There's obviously not a lot of hawthorn around your way!
Lordy, there's some happy souls around this morning. 8)
I smacked a nail through a floorboard into a heating pipe, only sprung a leak when I pulled the board and nail up, funny that.... 😐
Good god what a miserable git you are today GW.
Muffin Man, I've experience the dreaded hawthorn before, but it was pretty instant every time on [i]that[/i] ride. We all ran out of tubes.... 😕
I fixed a puncture on the front wheel of my Brompton last night.
This morning I got a puncture on the rear wheel of the Brompton.
It's got to be a conspiracy
Punctures are bad mmmkay
I had a puncture in my inflatable woman last night I only found out when I pulled my knob out. 😆
In Spain this year I awoke one morning to a flat tyre.
While sorting the tube out, I chucked it in the pool to find the leak and there was a bubble of air forming and coming away from the tube about once every 5 secs and that was with a lot of air in the tube to find the hole.
Probably could have just re-inflated it and just kept topping it up evey few hrs!
I've a slow puncture that if I get a decent psi in it actually seems to stop the hole as it'll go 5+ days without losing pressure. Run anything under 75psi and it needs topping up every day or so.
Got a new tube to put in this weekend as the current one is a mass of patches.
@Peter, had a similar thing a couple of months ago, saw a huge thorn in my tire while out, decided not to mess with it, rode home about 6 miles including some fast and bouncy downhill, all fine, removed the thorn from the tire and deflated in a few seconds.
Thats just a lack of preventative maintainence right there, if you'd opened up that tyre from new and filled it with good quality grease, that would never have happened.
Looks like a Freeride puncture to me.......
Is that it!?
I don't take photo's of my punctures, as I never thought they were anything special. I guess they have been compared to yours. Under 1" is pathetic. 😉
I take your thorn, and raise it a rusty nail 😀 (although admittedly, the tyre went flat in about 10 secs no not really a slow puncture)
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