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Old 03-20-24, 06:08 PM
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By the way, my secret to fixing flats fast goes like this. In order for this to work you need to be able to find the penetration point in the tire, which I can do about 75 to 80% of the time.

So assuming I found the penetration point I don't take the wheel off the bike, front or rear it doesn't matter, the wheel stays on. I simply remove half of one side of the bead with the hole in the center of that half, then pull about a 4th of the tube out with the hole in the center of that 1/4th, stretch the tube, width and length wise if necessary to find the hole, patch like you would normally do, reinstall, easy peasy.

I was 10 or so years old when some older neighbor in his 60's saw me fixing a flat in the driveway at my house, he showed me this technique, which I've been doing for about 60 years. Evidently fixing a flat like that was necessary back then due to the wheels were nutted on instead of quick release, so that method came out of necessity back in the day but also works great in this day too.
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