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Seems my bike has developed stationary puncture syndrome. When I went to get on the bike this morning the rear tyre was flat.
I think Mikey's bike has a rubber-mite infection which mine has now caught. Those little mites that feed on rubber and burrow through inner tube leaving tiny slow puncture holes. So long as the wheel is spinning they get all dizzy and become too nauseous to eat, so you're fine while you're moving but once you stop for long enough that their little heads stop spinning they start to feed and next thing you know... puncture.