Originally Posted by rekmeyata
I rarely remove the wheel off the bike!! WHAT DID I SAY YOU SCREAM?? That's right, I rarely have to remove the wheel off the bike to fix a flat! I simply find where the leak is at, take off about a third of one side of the bead with the hole about in the center of what I've removed, pull about a quarter of the tube out, again with the hole in the center of that quarter, patch and go. I had some old guy who lived in my neighborhood teach me that when I was about 9 or 10 years old, and I've been doing it that way for 56 or so years.
Hey do you use Rema patches? I haven'y patched many tubes lately, always had Rema sitting around so thqt's what I would use. Back when I was buying bike stuff years ago Rema were the go to kit (all the bikeshops used to sell them), but now I see there are lots of others: Park, Nashbar, Zefal and some one on Amazon I never heard of before, malfede
Also apologies for the duplicate post. Haven't used a forum in years. I thought quick replies automatically quoted the person to whom you were replying. Will look at pinned instructions, lol