2013 Black Cats Award
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby birdbrain » Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:41 pm
Puts my 2 little ones to shame
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:20 pm
Nah, just a scratch, that will buff out.Ozkaban wrote:Far out! That's an expensive puncture! I don't imagine you could repair that sort of thing...cerb wrote:A guy down at crits last Sunday got a bit of a puncture...
Punctured the tyre AND the rim!
(Where I do my Crits, we walk the track before the race to remove sharp objects).
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby jcjordan » Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:57 pm
Ran over a bit of green bottle and kill a tire
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby wombatK » Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:15 pm
So it's 1 for me.
Flat was on the rear. A Maxxis Detonator that's had two flats in 3000 km - ie. about 1500 km per flat. That's half the mileage that Conti GP 4000s give me between punctures, but I'm too tight to toss away the Maxxis tyres that came on the Cell Triumph yet. Treadwise
they look to have plenty of wear left.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Dan » Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:53 am
Today: 1 - Black Panther (much bigger than your average cat) - bogan droppings (VB tallie) chucked from the Hornibrook Highway onto the cycleway, sliced straight through a 500km old Rubino Pro. Dead to say the least. Luckily only 800m from the start. Thanks also to Hamster & co for stopping and checking on us!
RUNNING TOTAL: 1
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby vander » Sun Feb 24, 2013 3:57 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Lukeyboy » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:49 pm
Dan wrote:Previous Total: 0
Today: 1 - Black Panther (much bigger than your average cat) - bogan droppings (VB tallie) chucked from the Hornibrook Highway onto the cycleway, sliced straight through a 500km old Rubino Pro. Dead to say the least. Luckily only 800m from the start. Thanks also to Hamster & co for stopping and checking on us!
RUNNING TOTAL: 1
Get it to run smooth and you got yourself a new tire for the trainer. Well, that's where all my cut wheels end up going
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2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Dan » Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:32 pm
No trainer here! It'll serve as a patch donor.Lukeyboy wrote:
Get it to run smooth and you got yourself a new tire for the trainer. Well, that's where all my cut wheels end up going
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby jcjordan » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:56 am
God I hate the wet
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:15 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby jasonc » Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:18 pm
+1
total : 1
rear tyre. went down straight away. wet roads with some drizzle. went past again about half hour later and saw some nice bits of metal around so I'd say it was 1 of them.
tyre: gatorskin 23c
kms on tyre: ~1500.
total punctures on tyre: 2.
EDIT: 2 cyclists went past and they didn't say a word. I ALWAYS offer assistance.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:52 am
On the positive side... It puts me on track to lead the competition yet again if I can keep up this rate all year.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby HiChris » Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:52 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby g-boaf » Sat Mar 09, 2013 2:03 pm
Glass bottles should be banned! Went and had a look, looked like left overs of a bottle of Vodka. Tried the trick with the $5 note, that didn't work at all.
I was have a really enjoyable ride too. Making good power, reasonable speed for the first time in ages.
Running total +5.
Hey Twizzle, you've got competition this time.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Dan » Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:30 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby g-boaf » Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:38 pm
True.Dan wrote:You now have a tyre donor for real sections of sidewall to replace the $5 note
What wheels have you got? Checked the edges of the rim for any sharp edges? That was the issue when I had that problem with the wheels I have.vander wrote:Been back on the bike 2 weeks and I have had 4 flat tyres in about 7 or 8 rides. Just wanted to complain about it somewhere. Cant find anything wrong, the rim tape looks OK dont really know what it is.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby RonK » Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:45 am
Stick with the $5 note - at least it is multi-pupose.Dan wrote:You now have a tyre donor for real sections of sidewall to replace the $5 note
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Big_Red » Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:32 pm
Then commuting to work today, i've got a flat from who knows what, no more than 1 km from starting off. Tiny split at bottom of valve, cannot find any thing in tyre to explain it, might be because tyre not seated properly after saturday's misshap. Unlucky. +2
Total = 3
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby Dan » Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:45 pm
You're right - can't swap a bit of rubber for coffee, but then again after seeing whatever article in whatever tabloid about exorbitant coffee prices at some restaurants/bistros/whatevers, it seems you can't often swap $5 for one, eitherRonK wrote:Stick with the $5 note - at least it is multi-pupose.Dan wrote:You now have a tyre donor for real sections of sidewall to replace the $5 note
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:01 pm
+1, 6. Beer bottle glass in the rear tyre creating a slowish-leak. ONCE AGAIN, I discovered it while cornering. The fairy is an evil cow.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby jasonc » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:14 pm
had this happen to me. I reckon cause was my pump. The clamp on pumps pull on the tubes (hence I have a lezyne screw on pump). This over time can cause increased rubbing/splitting. could have just been a dodgy tube too....Big_Red wrote:Then commuting to work today, i've got a flat from who knows what, no more than 1 km from starting off. Tiny split at bottom of valve, cannot find any thing in tyre to explain it, might be because tyre not seated properly after saturday's misshap.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby g-boaf » Mon Mar 11, 2013 9:17 pm
I have my own coffee machine.Dan wrote:You're right - can't swap a bit of rubber for coffee, but then again after seeing whatever article in whatever tabloid about exorbitant coffee prices at some restaurants/bistros/whatevers, it seems you can't often swap $5 for one, eitherRonK wrote:Stick with the $5 note - at least it is multi-pupose.Dan wrote:You now have a tyre donor for real sections of sidewall to replace the $5 note
Bugger! You must have done something pretty bad to upset the great gods of tyre punctures.twizzle wrote:*sigh*
+1, 6. Beer bottle glass in the rear tyre creating a slowish-leak.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:11 pm
YOU. ARE. A. BITCH.
I was minding my own business. How DARE you stick some small random piece of trash on the road for me to pinch flat on.
On top of that - less than 1Km from my house, making the only viable option to CARRY MY BIKE seeing as the tyre was trashed and needed replacing, and the new tyre was at home.
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby twizzle » Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:48 pm
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Re: 2013 Black Cats Award
Postby jasonc » Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:01 pm
new total: 2
GP4000s rear tyre
coot-tha challenge day. chunky piece of glass.
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