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arrgh yeah. Remembering the convenience of IGH and rollerbrake but the absolute ballache of complete disassembly of the rear to change a tube. This propelled me towards Marathon Plus tires shortly after the first flat... I read somewhere that the Dutch use a double-ended tube for this reason. Dunno if you can source those?
vilms5000
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Argh argh argh came to the bike rack after work today to find my third flat in two weeks. I know what's dunnit - there's a hole near to the seam and patches don't quite seal properly. Last patch lasted about a year, this one lasted a week. I'm being punished by the bike gods for being slack and not replacing the tube properly when I got home.
Was already 7pm when I left work and it's the only evening I have any hope of getting home before 9pm this week. I absolutely could not be arsed to repatch it again (hub gears + coaster brake, not quick release, hence the preference for patching on the road and in theory replacing the tube properly at home ) so went to Evans on the vague hope they'd have a suitably-sized tube. Which they didn't.
At which point I opted for throwing money at the problem to stop the pain, so I left the bike at Evans and am now going to pay them to get the right tube in and replace it. I have joined the people who pay bike shops to fix a puncture. And right now, it feels goooood!