Originally Posted by
bmthom.gis
That's all well and good if you are a mechanic and it's someone else's money...or you work in a shop and a new tube only costs 2 bucks. If I wasted 8-10 bucks for each flat I got I would feel like a chump.
Seriously, it's not difficult or time consuming to patch. Carry a spare tube, swap it out, patch in the evening. 5 minutes, almost zero money, and as good as a new tube. I've never had a patch leak, and I have multiple tubes with 4 or 5 patches each - every one of those represents at least $30 if I had to buy a new tube every time - to say nothing of the environmental disaster of throwing away a tube because of a pin prick.