Hi All,

I am new both to this forum and to bike riding in general - I recently bought a road bike and have been riding to and from work. One issue I have is that I keep getting flat tyres - could this have something to do with the rim? They are not super expensive rims, and I keep pinching the inner tube which is really frustrating. Where the spoke joins the rim, there is divots and I think maybe this could be the issue - anyone got a suggested remedy?

If not, just writing to say gday and try and learn a bit more from your collective experiences.

Cheers,

Jezzapalmer77

Yes it could be the reason for this. Usually a tire liner is installed between the rim and the tube. But before you do that, make sure there aren't any sharp burrs (metal splinters) sticking up. Those are caused by the drilling of the holes. A safe way to do that is to run a fuzzy cloth like the inside of a fleece cloth along the edge to see where the cloth catches. There will be fuzzy material from the cloth stuck where it's a problem. Remove those, install a tire liner and hopefully that will solve the issue.

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Welcome to BF! Also...+1 on the thoughts above. In addition to that--you’ll find cheap, thin, skimpy little rim bands and more costly, wider, thicker, more substantive ones. When you compare the cost of the “good ones” to the misery they save you from or the cost of other components, they’re still cheap. Bearing that in mind, get the best ones you can find. It’ll be money well spent.

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