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Have you fully checked your tyres and wheel for sharps / foreign bodies ? Or is it a seasonal thing where your riding by cut hedges with thorns or something !

Is there a reason why you aren't fixing with patches ? I tend to patch until a tube has half a dozen.... Can only recall one occasion when a patch failed

Having said that .... Search for Vavert 29 tubes on eBay 10 tubes for £20

Tubeless.

On-one (or tubeless as above)

Have you fully checked your tyres and wheel for sharps / foreign bodies ? Or is it a seasonal thing where your riding by cut hedges with thorns or something !

Just a lot of bad luck.
Inner Tubes gone through since Sat:
1st - Piece of glass
2nd - attempted to get spare inner tube off other bike to save a trip to halfords. ended up causing a flat trying to get tyre off.
-- Rushed to Halfords and bought another 5 inner tubes ---
3rd - attempting to put inner tube on the secondary bike to replace #2 caused a flat with a pinch from the tyre levers. Done in a rush before starting work
4th - another failed attempt at getting another inner tube in while in a rush
5th - thorn mid ride on a 37 mile ride. Didn't ruin ride as the spare tube lasted the rest of the way.
6th - brought wrong tube from halfords by mistake, schrader valve instead of presta
7th - very bad pinch flat on a metal post sticking out of the ground on a fast descent (now wished I'd done it slowly as I would have noticed that metal post in time). Completely ruined ride as my backup was unknowingly the aforementioned #6 schrader valve tube. Only good thing was it was only a 1 mile walk back to the car. But completely wrote off the 'group ride' as I was route leading and this terminated it just minutes into the ride for me and others. Other riders were on 26 inch wheels. It was (unsuccessfully) attempted to get one of their 26 inch spare inner tubes on the 29er. It didn't come close to working.

This is terrible seeing as I've only had about 2 other flats since January and they have not caused much hassle as they were very slow punctures only discovered after the ride.

anyway I'll try the Vavert 29 tubes on eBay if its 10 tubes for £20

Thought about trying tubeless but on 'group rides' I've seen enough people having endless hassle with them losing air. Even heard of one rider who went flying over the bars when the tyre lost all it's air on a descent, badly injured and off the bike for the next 3 weeks.

The losing air on descent happens in a very similar way to getting a pinch flat, tubeless is no worse.

At present it's a done thing, it works. Like anything done right you just need to check once a week for pressure just like with tubes.

Is there a reason why you aren't fixing with patches ? I tend to patch until a tube has half a dozen.... Can only recall one occasion when a patch failed

This evening the pinch flat I had was so bad that patching didn't come close to working. Don't know if this is unusual for a pinch flat as I have hardly ever had any due to having full suspension and running at 30 - 35 psi. But this short sharp metal post sticking out of the ground was brutal, at the speed I was doing (felt like about 20mph) it would rip through any inner tube no matter what.

Anyway I never thought patches were a permanent solution to a puncture. I always thought a patch is just to get you through the remainder of the ride, then the inner tube needs to be replaced.

Anyway I never thought patches were a permanent solution to a puncture. I always thought a patch is just to get you through the remainder of the ride, then the inner tube needs to be replaced.

Only ever brought the trail side repair ones with me and can't even remember using them (normally they are just as back up for when the 'spare' has been punctured - can't remember this ever happening).

If I can replace the tube for just £2 per tube is it worth repairing them at home and the risk of it letting me down mid ride ?

Well you 2 quid gets out 5 or 6 fixes
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/puncture-kits-levers/?curr=GBP&dest=1
Not my experience that they fail mid ride, properly fixed it's fixed.

But then again I can't see me going back to tubes at any point in the future.

Because of this very reason (the P* fairy kept visiting), I went tubeless.

Also - learn how to change a tube without damaging it or you are just throwing good money after bad.

"Other riders were on 26 inch wheels. It was (unsuccessfully) attempted to get one of their 26 inch spare inner tubes on the 29er. It didn't come close to working"

F- for effort.

Back in the mists of time in a land before mainstream 29ers- 29er tubes didnt exist 700x45 stretched or 26x2.2 stretched were your options.

Both worked fine and no more difficult than fitting a 29er tube ime.

Tubeless

pre tubeless I would buy decent tubes and a decent puncture outfit. Patched tubes stayed in regular use up to about a dozen holes by which time they were usually pretty old and the valve was getting tired.

I have never understood why people chuck a tube away for a single puncture, what a waste of money and resources and totally unnecessary for five minutes effort to put a proper bonded (not self adhesive) patch on.

And learn how to change a tyre/tube properly our at least be a little more careful. As said above shredding tubes doing this is a waste of time and money

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Because I can't be arsed to faff about patching a tube mid ride. That's why I carry a spare.

They also don't get thrown away but re-used for chainstay protection etc.

Half of your punctures seem to be installation error which you wouldn't get with tubeless and the only patch I've had fail is one on the tube seam, some of my tubes look to have more patch than tube.

If only to reduce the amount of plastics you're sending to landfill I'd go tubeless. My lbs charges 15 per wheel including all labour and materials. For that price it's a no brainer

Internet offers ftw. Or stretch a 26 and got without nipping it. Limited help I know.