Today, the weather was just awesome, 60 degrees, sunny, clear skies, light to 0 wind, and just a great day for a nice long ride. I took off with the idea of going for a 40 mile ride, and as I started spinning, it felt awesome!
My bliss was quickly interrupted and I was brought back to reality when 9 miles in, I had to choose between running right into a pothole, or riding over a rock. I chose to take my chances with ridding over the rock and **POP**! next thing I know I'm goin 19 mph on a flat front tire.
I pulled off the road and walked my wounded bike to a walgreens about 100 yards away where I waited 45 minutes for my brother to come pick me up.
IT WAS SUCH A BUZZ KILL, that put a sudden and premature end to my Friday ride.

No spare Tube**********?

It's your fault. You should have taken an extra tube or a patch kit!

These things happen. Carry a tube and pump/CO2 and you're able to continue your ride.

What everyone has said, a tube and CO2/pump and you would be back on the road in less than 10 minutes.

There's always the bunny hop. Seriously. This has saved me when cars have pushed me into curbs.

Sorry, sleclerc.

Nothing ruins a ride like a flat tire.

Since no one has mentioned it yet. You should bring a spare tube and a patch kit...

And learn how to bunny hop.

You expect bunnyhopping when he can't fix flats on the road?

Flats are just the cost of doing roadie business...

Why didn't you just change the tube and keep going?

One thing in addition to carrying a spare tube, you need to practice keeping your vision up and not focussing on the road 6' in front of you. Unless you're drafting closely in a pack, there really isn't any excuse for not noticing the pothole earlier.

Oh stop.

Good question.

You should have walked home as punishment for not being prepared. After that 9 mile walk youd go get yourself a spare tube and a pump so you never have to do it again.






( I also learned the hard way 4 mile walk home once bought a patch kit. 2 mile walk home after unpatchable blow-out bought a spare tube!)

+1 theres little mercy, if any, on BF.

A spare tube wouldn't have done me any good for my flattened TUBELESS tire...

I heard that it is fairly easy to put a tube inside of a tubeless tire. That is a selling point that of tubeless or so I thought.

Get some new tires (the old fashioned kind that use tubes) with your spare tubes

You either patch the tire, or install a tube.

Would so.

Tubeless doesn't mean flatproof.

It's OK. We all had to learn these things, sometimes the hard way. Consider yourself lucky to have people around to bail you out.

What the heck good is a tubeless tire if you can't fix them on the road when they fail?

I blame it on the banning of umd.

you can, this guy just doesn't know what he's doing.

step 1: find cause of flat (if any)
step 2: remove tubeless valve stem
step 3: install regular tube
step 4: don't call your brother, continue on ride, and end up not looking like an ******* on the internet.

+1

Tubeless tires are basically exactly like tubed tires...they just have beads that seal and goo inside. A riding buddy of mine went tubeless because he hated getting flats....then went back to tubes because he continued to get flats. He then found out that the tires cut easily, and forced him to frequently replace $65 tires instead of repairing/replacing a $4 tube and continuing on. Oh, and in the middle of a century, I had to give him a tube because his "flatproof" tubeless tire wasn't working AGAIN...and installing the tube worked exactly like any other standard tire. Problem solved. They actually advertise this about tubeless, so it's no secret.

-Jeremy

I have a couple of problems here.

First one: Since when is 40 miles a long ride?

Second one: I have never seen a road situation where it is either a pothole or a rock.