This morning, I had a sidewall blowout while zooming down a hill in Mystic, Connecticut, an entire state away from home. Fortunately, in addition to all the tools I mentioned in an earlier post, I was carrying a few squares of cut-up FEDEX fiber envelope and a foot-length of gaffer's tape, wrapped around an old Chapstick tube.

I used the FEDEX fiber envelope as a tire boot, to hold the tube inside the sidewall split. Then I secured it with gaffer's tape, inside and out. Got me to the ferry terminal, about eleven miles away. Fortunately, my car was parked there.