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Old 02-22-24 | 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted by RCMoeur
If it's not a roadside repair, I'll wait 15-30 minutes. I'll inflate them, run them through the bucket again for bubble-check, and leave them for 48-72 hours to check a) for patch integrity and b) to see if there are any other holes or slow leaks in the tube (which can often be the case, especially with salvaged bikes).
You live in goat head (and numerous other pokey stuff) land and you stop bubble checking at the first bubble!? Every patch job I do I bubble check, mark the first one, and continue on. I check the entire tube…which had been inflated to quite a bit larger than it would be in the tire…sometimes twice.

I really do think that a lot of the problem that people have with a patch job is the “checking your work” step. I’ve seen lots and lots of people pull the new patch off by over inflating the tube right after the patch job. If they had left it to cure for that 48 hours and then checked the patch, they would be less likely to pull the patch off the tube.
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