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Originally Posted by
wolfchild
Nothing wrong with improvising emergency repairs to get you home, many of us have done that... but once you get home you should do a proper fix. Carrying a spare tube is the best solution, far easier to deal with than patching a tube. Glueless patches are also good for emergency repairs if you don't want to mess around with contact cement.
I once had to use 3 or 4 glueless patches when I got a snakebite puncture but couldn't stop till I'd made a couple more (easy to do with a deflated tube!), and then my spare tube turned out to have too short a valve stem for the wheel.
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