aprilstarchild | (no subject)

Don't you hate it when you get halfway through fixing your own flat, only to find that you bought the WRONG SIZE inner tube?

Fuckity.

Can't decide if my reluctance to head to the bike shop is because I'm lazy or because I'm too embarrassed. Either way, it's kinda dumb.

I have a patch kit around here somewhere. I should just patch the old one, since I know where the damn puncture is anyway. Just as I thought, it's a pinch flat.

Also: I have the dirtiest drive train known to humanity.

5minutelimit, do you wanna help me really clean my bike some day soon? I always end up doing a half-assed job of it when I do it by myself. The lack of a good place to do it in my complex doesn't help.

ETA: the glue in patch kits stinks.

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If you are getting pinch flats, you probably don't have enough air in your tires.
You can usually get by with a wrong size tube in a pinch if it is close-- it's just an air holder. Put in some air, put it in the tire, blow it up until it fits the tire, then let it out to fit the rim and finagle it, and put the thing back together and blow it up. This pretty much guarentees another pinch flat eventually but will get you by.
Do you want to take it apart? Or just hose it down and oil it?

Oh, I knew my tire was underinflated. I don't normally ride that way.

I ended up just patching the tube. So far, so good.

I need to take it apart and scrub it. It's so gross. There's like chunks of black greasy crud in there.