At home in the leisure of my garage including wipes downs and careful inspection of rim, tire, etc.: 20min

On the side of the road solo: 5min

On the side of the road with three other cyclists trying to help and give advise and two pressuring everyone to hurry up: 10min

Anyway, for me sometimes the most time consuming part is the inspection of the tube and tire to find exactly the cause of the flat. 3 extra minutes there can be 15 saved down the road.

I've done 2min roadside fixes on the rear wheel when I see the culprit on the outside of the tire, pull out a bit of the tube, put a patch on, stuff it back in, pump up and go. No need to even take off the wheel.

Al

I always take the wheel off, much easier to manage. I have always had bad luck with patched tubes (probably due to user error) so I just replace the tube; much quicker to do that anyway and tubes are only like $4.

me, too, plus two minutes for cussing, and another two b/c I'll probably try to scarf a smoke at the same time...

gonna have to check those out--different from normal levers, I assume.

You just have less of a chance of breaking/puncturing/scratching things when your levers are the weakest material that you are using. They do have very wide heads, which is sweet.

It takes me 3.6 × 10^14 picoseconds

2-mins gotta be fast when you have tags and a flat don't want someone else taking your money

did not mention the difficulty I have with the Specialized Armadillos. The sidewalls are so rigid, you loose skin on your knuckles, stuffing in the tire below the rim. That can take a little time, if you don't want have a pinch flat. With the protection of it's kevlar, the trouble is worth the effort.

How attractive is the woman I am changing the flat for?

six minutes? holy crow! my last flat change on my geared bike took a week!

- one day to strip all the glue off with some exceedingly lame furniture stripper
- one day to let the tires stretch on the clean rim
- two days for the first layer of glue on the rim to cure
- one day for the second layer of glue on the rim to cure
- one day for the glue on the base tape to cure
- one day to let the mounted tire dry

let's just say i'm slow at it. i usually don't rush and i'm changing the tire at the LBS anyway so i have time to shoot the ***** with the employees / those around me.

That's nothing. Last time I had my Boneshaker serviced, it took the blacksmith nearly a month to re-hoop my iron wheels. Ridiculous. I'd go to the other blacksmith, but he's kind of stuck up.

well i can understand taking your time and doing it at your leisure and all...
if it's a rim i've been using and i know there is only the kinda glue i use, then i just do base layer on new tire. then tack coat on rim (old glue still on) while basecoat on tire is drying some. another coat on tire, then mount the sucker up. also, i wear the latex gloves you can get at auto parts stores and just use my finger to spread it all over the rim and tire.

i might have to do the strip rim thang now thoough...i got some rims that are tubular at a swap meet and the glue looks ******** on them...probably gonna start clean.

changing a flat...umm, depends on how quick i get the tire off. if it's quick then it like a 6 minute change. (pulling wheel off and then putting back on with proper chain tension and all...i got a good mini pump, 140psi ain't no thang)

i was riding in the rain last night a piece of glass flatted my two week new gatorskin sprinter...looks i'm gonna send a few tires to tire alert to be retubed and have new basetape put on...

Well just this morning it took me 20 min to first replace a blow out, find out it was a bad tube [valve leaked], and put a 2nd one on. I was of course already late to work, so the skies then decided to open up and pelt my face the whole way. But I finally got validity for always having two tubes in my bag I suppose.

Faster than it takes to actually type out the word "you".

In all seriousness, five minutes maximum. Now if I have to patch the tube, rather than replace... slightly longer.

With regular cheapo tyres, 3-4 minute all done and put.
Good Rubber like GSkins, 10 minutes since the tyre is so stiff and I only break the leavers...

takes me like 7 minutes.