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Old 07-01-13 | 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by danielgaz
Well...the drunks whipping bottles on the road foiled my ride 0.6 miles in. The tire had a decent enough slice in it to render it acutely useless, but I'm wondering if anyone's "hacked" the way to patch an actual tire without a patch kit. Any help would be much appreciated!
The second best boot material is a tyvek mailing envelope from the post office. I carry a 8" square of it all the time. It works well and doesn't weigh much.

The very best boot material was Nature Valley granola bar wrappers...the hard granola bar kind. It was a sandwich of aluminum foil, plastic and paper that was almost better than the tire it was used to fix. They don't make them that way any more. The only drawback was that you had to eat the granola bar
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