Saved by a great BF tip!
 

I had a bad blowout while riding yesterday, I have no Idea what I ran over, but it was sharp & did a good job of shredding my tire (Bontrager R2, ~300 miles on it) & tube.
I read a tip a few days ago about using a dollar bill to cover the gash & prevent the tube from protruding out if the tire. I had a twenty, and it worked great. It was enough to get me the last three miles home.
Look closely at how the twenty is poking out of the gash in the tire!
I can't imagine that any tire would have survived whatever I ran over.

Thanks BF!

That technique existed decades before BF.

Sure...but it took BF and the likes to distribute it to the masses.

Yeah, Pcad. Let us take credit while we can.

Shucks this probably justifies the 1,239 pages of worthlessness..

Gu packets work well also

I had a couple of blow outs on those R2's also.

yep but it works great. ive used it myself a time or two.

I first read this about this tip just a few days ago as well, so if I ever use it I'll consider it thanks to BF.

I started carrying a piece of old inner tube as a boot after reading that tip here.
It was REALLY handy the day I sliced a sidewall wide open 30 miles from home.

Grants work better than Jacksons. But Benjamins are pure crap. Anybody disagree?

Ummm, yes? Wouldn't the Euro be the ideal choice? :notamused:

Maybe some Dongs?

I started saving plastics after having these sidewall gashes a few times. Clif Bar, gel wrappers, other stuff that's about that size and strong. So I carry a couple around now.

Interesting note: I've had *bad* experience with the "boot" product that is designed for this purpose. A reputable tool maker markets this thing, I bought it and I used it. While it got me going again, the boot itself caused my next flat after a few dozen km. Turns out, their boot has an edge on it. And that edge, although seemingly small, combined with my high pressure, made a little cut in my tube and this became a flat after half a day.

So observations: there are more cost-effective products than dollars or euros - sift through your trash. Get something with as small an edge as possible. Leaving the tire a little under-inflated helps if you're worried about edge cuts.

I had a blow out, very similar looking to the OP's, and I first tried to boot it with a slice of old inner tube. But the inner tube was just too thin, so my good tube still kept protruding through the tear in the tire. It was unrideable.

Luckily someone had a little slice of an old tire that I used as a boot, which worked perfectly.

Sure, but a $20 bill takes the same amount of space and is generally more versatile.

So, what's your point. Give the guy a bone already, he's just expressing his thanks to some idea that worked.

Unless you spend it all before your blow out.

I use an old piece of tire as a boot.

Twenties are ideal in that they allow you to do thing like buy lunch and a beer and wind up with more tire boots than you started with

That's some cheap ass lunch and beer...

BF, like Pcad, has been around since before gravity. It was only recently discovered.

Way to go Andrew Jackson.

I always carry a couple singles along with my ID and debit card... better than sacrificing a twenty for tire booting.

Twenties work twenty times better than ones -- don't they?

I prefer Washingtons to Jacksons myself but they both work. I guess when it comes to tire boots I'm cheap.

I use money only for financial exchanges. I'm old-fashioned like that.

No, no... diminishing returns set in. They are only 3-4 times better.

Plus, you can only use them on high-end bikes with carbon wheels.