Tyresome

[hirez]

Location of hole - rear tyre
Location of bike - work
Location of spare inner tube - home

Oh well, a nice evening for a walk, with any luck.

Comments

[girfan.livejournal.com]

Is there a sports place in that shopping area near your workplace that has the pet shop?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it's the sort of rubbish 'sports' shop that only sells replica England kits and Nike Air Useless drinking shoes. For people who look at sport rather than participate.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Rover the Sushidog says that deflation is a noble goal.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Can we get an umpire's decision on the loss of noble gases through deflation?

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Little monatomic jobbies will just weasel their way out through the rubber. That's why you don't fill your tyres with helium to save weight. Might be OK with argon, though.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

For (black) butyl rubber tubes, this makes a difference. For latex (brown) tubes (the lightweight sort that leg-shavers use) it doesn't. Those things are so thin, permeable and downright leaky that you could pump them up with sulphur hexafluoride and they'd leak it out just as quick.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

In that case, I can only suggest mastic.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Gaffer tape! It'll last a mile or two.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

Somehow I just knew you would have a good solution! :)

[quercus.livejournal.com]

A better solution is to find over lycra-clad leg-shavers in the building and borrow their spare tube. I always used to keep one -- a perfect charm against ever needing it.

[hazeii.livejournal.com]

Remove tube, stuff tyre with grass/straw/rolled-up newspaper etc. Ride home carefully.