2018 - Black Cat Award (Punctures) - Prizes from Pedalit
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Postby steve-waters » Mon Jun 25, 2018 1:15 pm
So I went out Saturday morning for cheeky 35km loop before I had to get my kids to their early start Krav Maga grading - will be simple get up a bit earlier ride shorter but still have plenty of time to make it.
So about 35 minutes into the hour and bit ride I somehow miss that there are two big metal brackets for joining timber on the road till the last second - I miss the first but hit the second and then hear the deflating hiss coming from the rear. Jump off walk back swear at them then chuck the brackets in the bush. Change my flat using my one spare tube, send a joke text to the misses about first flat in gosh knows how long but all good still heaps of time.
So I continue the loop then after rolling down Olivers Hill the back feels a bit squishy so I pull over and I hear that bloody sound again only to find a slash in the side wall - now this slash was not there from the first flat as I checked but I assume it weakened the wall and down the tube went.
No worries I will call the wife to come and get me only 10km from home - ahh nope she has her phone on silent in the kitchen so I proceed to clock up 10 missed calls, 12 SMS, a few Facebook messages & an assortment Slack messages to the kids with nothing as the clock ticks towards the time we need to leave for grading.
My youngest finally clocks on to her iPad misses my help me messages (and various selfies) and asks how I am going anyway finally get onto my wife who grabs me and gets me home 5 minutes after I was meant to leave for the grading so my quick cheeky ride turned into a little Saturday adventure
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Re: 2018 - Black Cat Award (Punctures) - Prizes from Pedalit
Postby jasonc » Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:14 pm
20180322 - front tyre. I hit a stick about 1km from home last night. It obviously punctured the tube as it was flat when i went to the garage this morning. I put a new tyre on while i was at it. Michelin power competition
20180620 - go out to the garage. rear is flat. find the glass. replace tube (after finding the valve that disappeared across the garage with the valve cap) and i was on my way. michelin power endurance
Old total: 3
20180628 rear tyre on the way home. Found a cut and picked some glass out. I gas the tyre. Removing the flexihose, the valve comes with it. I couldn't get the valve out of my co2. A mate pulled up by then so I used his co2 dispenser. I had a spare cylinder
New total: 4
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Postby AUbicycles » Wed Jul 04, 2018 6:59 am
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Postby Philistine » Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:45 pm
If I can get my soap box out for a minute - there are flashing lights on the M5 at the moment; one declares "240 tonnes of rubbish collected in 2017", and another "cover your load, don't litter and don't risk a fine". I'm curious as to how many littering fines were issued in 2017 (or any other time). Is it too cynical to suppose that the next infringement notice issued will be the first?
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Postby g-boaf » Sun Jul 22, 2018 4:33 pm
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Postby Arbuckle23 » Sun Jul 22, 2018 4:35 pm
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Postby g-boaf » Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:30 am
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Postby AUbicycles » Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:26 pm
jasonc wrote:Chris - if you're reading this, the award this quarter should go to this guyCaelum wrote:Figure as i'm getting back into cycling, and plan to be commuting each day i should start this again. .
Apologies for the radio silence, holiday and a healthy workload directed my focus elsewhere.
Thank you @jasonc, I will place my confidence in your assessment have Caelum as leader for #Q2 and will follow up now.
Don't forget to reset your tallies and keep on documenting... any more than a few a month and there is something wrong, seek help!
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Postby g-boaf » Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:40 pm
Hoping for no more. Today's misfortune was a small plastic bag blowing across the road and miraculously getting caught up in the chain and rear derailleur. When I say caught, I mean totally and utterly jammed in it. It jammed the whole entire Dura Ace 9000 rear derailleur. Took ages to pull all of it out and ended up with filthy hands.
And then on the way back, a pigeon decides to fly into my front wheel while I'm going 29km/h. I stopped to see if I had a severely injured bird to deal with, but it flew off after a bit with no injuries obvious and no mess over the bike (bike #1).
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Postby biker jk » Wed Aug 22, 2018 8:21 pm
Thankfully it didn't happen to the bike you're taking to France. Lucky escape with the pigeon. It would have been nasty if the bird was jammed in the spokes.g-boaf wrote:I've been having a horror run with punctures - so ended up using some sealant in the tubes, just a small amount.
Hoping for no more. Today's misfortune was a small plastic bag blowing across the road and miraculously getting caught up in the chain and rear derailleur. When I say caught, I mean totally and utterly jammed in it. It jammed the whole entire Dura Ace 9000 rear derailleur. Took ages to pull all of it out and ended up with filthy hands.
And then on the way back, a pigeon decides to fly into my front wheel while I'm going 29km/h. I stopped to see if I had a severely injured bird to deal with, but it flew off after a bit with no injuries obvious and no mess over the bike (bike #1).
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Postby Philistine » Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:49 am
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Postby caneye » Fri Aug 24, 2018 4:46 pm
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Postby g-boaf » Sun Aug 26, 2018 5:59 am
It is insured of course - but it throws my plans out of whack.
With my flight chaos as well (getting mild food poisoning) and then the delay (broken down plane), I was here too late to get the bars replaced.
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Postby Bunged Knee » Sun Aug 26, 2018 9:18 am
g-boaf wrote:Emirates have smashed the bars in my bike. Absolutely fuming. I'll probably have a Mavic Canyon tomorrow- but I'm not pleased at having the bike I love damaged.
It is insured of course - but it throws my plans out of whack.
With my flight chaos as well (getting mild food poisoning) and then the delay (broken down plane), I was here too late to get the bars replaced.
No mentions of puncture.
Might be in wrong thread.
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Postby jasonc » Tue Sep 04, 2018 6:37 pm
20180322 - front tyre. I hit a stick about 1km from home last night. It obviously punctured the tube as it was flat when i went to the garage this morning. I put a new tyre on while i was at it. Michelin power competition
20180620 - go out to the garage. rear is flat. find the glass. replace tube (after finding the valve that disappeared across the garage with the valve cap) and i was on my way. michelin power endurance
20180628 rear tyre on the way home. Found a cut and picked some glass out. I gas the tyre. Removing the flexihose, the valve comes with it. I couldn't get the valve out of my co2. A mate pulled up by then so I used his co2 dispenser. I had a spare cylinder
Old total: 4
20180904 - front tyre. No idea what got it but I only found out when going down a short sharp descent. Then had the co2 unscrew the valve again
New Total: 5
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Postby biker jk » Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:00 pm
Stop buying inner tubes with removable cores.jasonc wrote:20180306 - rear tyre, michelin power endurance. no idea what got it. didn't find anything. can't find any obvious holes
20180322 - front tyre. I hit a stick about 1km from home last night. It obviously punctured the tube as it was flat when i went to the garage this morning. I put a new tyre on while i was at it. Michelin power competition
20180620 - go out to the garage. rear is flat. find the glass. replace tube (after finding the valve that disappeared across the garage with the valve cap) and i was on my way. michelin power endurance
20180628 rear tyre on the way home. Found a cut and picked some glass out. I gas the tyre. Removing the flexihose, the valve comes with it. I couldn't get the valve out of my co2. A mate pulled up by then so I used his co2 dispenser. I had a spare cylinder
Old total: 4
20180904 - front tyre. No idea what got it but I only found out when going down a short sharp descent. Then had the co2 unscrew the valve again
New Total: 5
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Postby jasonc » Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:06 pm
That would work toobiker jk wrote:
Stop buying inner tubes with removable cores.
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Postby caneye » Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:18 pm
unable to identify the cause of leak (which is a concern to me). it was a thin/light Continental "RACE" tube. far from ideal for daily commuting (lesson learnt there).
tyre = Schwalbe Durano Double Defense 25mm. Less than 1000km new.
note to self .. stop buying conti tubes with their annoying valve cores that come undone (as above).
#4th for the year, 1st in 3 months.
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Postby cancan64 » Wed Sep 19, 2018 6:51 pm
9th for the year but only one this 1/4
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Postby cancan64 » Mon Oct 01, 2018 6:15 am
10 for the year and 2 this 1/4
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Postby jasonc » Tue Oct 09, 2018 11:18 am
20180322 - front tyre. I hit a stick about 1km from home last night. It obviously punctured the tube as it was flat when i went to the garage this morning. I put a new tyre on while i was at it. Michelin power competition
20180620 - go out to the garage. rear is flat. find the glass. replace tube (after finding the valve that disappeared across the garage with the valve cap) and i was on my way. michelin power endurance
20180628 rear tyre on the way home. Found a cut and picked some glass out. I gas the tyre. Removing the flexihose, the valve comes with it. I couldn't get the valve out of my co2. A mate pulled up by then so I used his co2 dispenser. I had a spare cylinder
20180904 - front tyre. No idea what got it but I only found out when going down a short sharp descent. Then had the co2 unscrew the valve again
Old Total: 5
201801005 - rear tyre. Glass sliver. Valve came out, again. Mate helped.
Over the weekend, I used locktite on all my valves
20181009 - rear tyre. Nothing found. Valve didn't come out! Win
New Total: 7
(3 for Q3 this year)
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Postby caneye » Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:35 pm
found a COUPLE of radial wires and a piece of glass embedded on my Marathon Plus, no thanks to the wet weather we've been having. hopefully 1 of them is the culprit.
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Postby jasonc » Tue Oct 16, 2018 9:08 am
20180322 - front tyre. I hit a stick about 1km from home last night. It obviously punctured the tube as it was flat when i went to the garage this morning. I put a new tyre on while i was at it. Michelin power competition
20180620 - go out to the garage. rear is flat. find the glass. replace tube (after finding the valve that disappeared across the garage with the valve cap) and i was on my way. michelin power endurance
20180628 rear tyre on the way home. Found a cut and picked some glass out. I gas the tyre. Removing the flexihose, the valve comes with it. I couldn't get the valve out of my co2. A mate pulled up by then so I used his co2 dispenser. I had a spare cylinder
20180904 - front tyre. No idea what got it but I only found out when going down a short sharp descent. Then had the co2 unscrew the valve again
201801005 - rear tyre. Glass sliver. Valve came out, again. Mate helped.
Over the weekend, I used locktite on all my valves
20181009 - rear tyre. Nothing found. Valve didn't come out! Win
Old Total: 7
(3 for Q3 this year)
20181016 - rear tyre - bit of glass in the wet
New total: 8
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Re: 2018 - Black Cat Award (Punctures) - Prizes from Pedalit
Postby caneye » Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:37 am
culprit = small little ceramic/porcelain piece. the thin & narrow but sharp debris could've pierced the rubber from any direction but it ended up doing maximum damage by entering perpendicular to the surface.
2 punctures on the same tyre within a week. bummer.
It's a Marathon Plus, so doubly disappointing. maybe showing signs of wear after 6000kms ..
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