Tyresome

Jul. 30th, 2007 09:45 am
hirez: More graf. Same place as the other one. (Default)
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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.

Date: 2007-07-30 09:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girfan.livejournal.com
Is there a sports place in that shopping area near your workplace that has the pet shop?

Date: 2007-07-30 09:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2007-07-30 09:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sushidog.livejournal.com
Rover the Sushidog says that deflation is a noble goal.

Date: 2007-07-30 09:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
Can we get an umpire's decision on the loss of noble gases through deflation?

Date: 2007-07-30 10:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quercus.livejournal.com
Gaffer tape! It'll last a mile or two.

Date: 2007-07-30 10:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girfan.livejournal.com
Somehow I just knew you would have a good solution! :)

Date: 2007-07-30 11:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2007-07-30 11:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2007-07-30 12:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hazeii.livejournal.com
Remove tube, stuff tyre with grass/straw/rolled-up newspaper etc. Ride home carefully.

Date: 2007-07-30 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2007-07-30 10:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jarkman.livejournal.com
In that case, I can only suggest mastic.

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