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Old 07-16-12 | 11:28 AM
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SteamingAlong
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From: North Attleboro, MA

Bikes: 2011 Steamroller; 1998 Cannondale F-400; 1981 Motobecane Jubilee Sport

fwiw, unless you have found or definitely know the cause of the puncture, I'd careful exam the tire for debris. I hate a flat one day last week. Wiped down the outside of the tire, to remove any remnants of the debris that caused the flat, then changed the flat. Later that day, I got a flat on the same tire, but I must have flipped the tube over after I patched it, because it wasn't the patch leaking, it was a new hole in the tube.

The second time, I checked both the outside and the inside of the tire and found nothing, no debris, and my rim tap was ok, and these were snakebite marks on the tube....After I got the tube repaired and the tire pumped up, I noticed this white smudge like mark on my tire. I started picking at it a little bit, I eventually pulled out a barely visible, tiny shard of razor sharp glass. It wasn't long enough to puncture the tube, until the tire and tube had some stress applied to it from riding. Then it was just able to hide in the tire again.

Those types of problems, can be tricky to diagnose.

Originally Posted by Namji
Apparently the little rubber trim that wraps the spokes needed to be changed and was the reason for multiple flats.
Rim tape, it probably wasn't covering your spokes up. The sharp edges will eventually wear out a tube.
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