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02-26-06, 05:46 AM
Hokay. Everyone else gets to ask dumb noob questions that have been answered 1000 times. So here's my turn.
So I put stans in a tube each on mine and my chicks bike to see if it works (Prick of a job that is to with only the bottle and the squeze top it comes with). Went for a ride yesterday and she gets a flat on the stanless tube. So we get home and I go to fix it today only to find my stanless tube is down as well. I find it's got 3 thorns in it so I don't know how I got home. Anyway fixed the punctures on both and stanned them up, so thought I'd go and have a look at the stanned tubes that didn't flat. Anyway, I find a heap of thorns in my stanned tube as well, but it had held it's pressure. So I thought I'd pull the thorns out to see what would happen, only to have the tube pissing air. Not paying attention I let the hole spin down to the bottom and the stans started pissing out. So I spun the wheel and the holes stopped leaking and pissing stans.
So anwyay 2 questions.
1. Do you pull your thorns or leave them in there? I'd personaly think the thorn would eventually chew the tube up, but who really knows?
2. In my case where I pulled the thorn out, it started pissing air and stands then re-sealled, should I pull the tube and patch it, or will it be right just with the stans sealing it back up?
So I put stans in a tube each on mine and my chicks bike to see if it works (Prick of a job that is to with only the bottle and the squeze top it comes with). Went for a ride yesterday and she gets a flat on the stanless tube. So we get home and I go to fix it today only to find my stanless tube is down as well. I find it's got 3 thorns in it so I don't know how I got home. Anyway fixed the punctures on both and stanned them up, so thought I'd go and have a look at the stanned tubes that didn't flat. Anyway, I find a heap of thorns in my stanned tube as well, but it had held it's pressure. So I thought I'd pull the thorns out to see what would happen, only to have the tube pissing air. Not paying attention I let the hole spin down to the bottom and the stans started pissing out. So I spun the wheel and the holes stopped leaking and pissing stans.
So anwyay 2 questions.
1. Do you pull your thorns or leave them in there? I'd personaly think the thorn would eventually chew the tube up, but who really knows?
2. In my case where I pulled the thorn out, it started pissing air and stands then re-sealled, should I pull the tube and patch it, or will it be right just with the stans sealing it back up?