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I done a stupid today and absent-mindedly pulled out a small stone from my rear G-one. Big mistake: decent-sized hole starts pissing air and goo. Spun the wheel and got the hole to the top, put my finger over it in an attempt to reverse time. Once I'd made peace with my stupidity, I span the wheel so the hole was at the bottom in the vain hope it might seal, and went in to work.
Sure enough, the tyre was as flat as a pancake when I came to ride home. I had a spare inner tube and a single canister of CO2. Couldn't be fucked with the inner, so chanced it and emptied the CO2 into the ailing tyre - it worked! Hurrah! I literally rode off into the sunset.
Five minutes later my chain snapped and I had to call my wife to collect me.
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