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What a coincidence. I went out yesterday for a quick mash round North London, on new tyres that have only seen 50 miles. Rolling very slowly (probably my mistake) over the top of Hornsey Rise when... POP-CLATTER-CLATTER-CLATTER. I thought a whole load of spokes had gone or something. Turns out it was a massive screw, still lodged in my tyre and whacking the stays/bridge.
I could hardly pull it out, made a makeshift tyre boot out of the knackered inner tube, and rode home cursing that it was about £17's worth of tyre and tube fucked.
Anyway, I got home, got busy with a more substantial boot, and some Shoe Goo in the cut, and it's not so bad. No bulge, so I'm going to just live with it. I've got away with worse.
The incident happened on the opposite side of the road to a big house with major construction work going on. Normally that's enough distance, but I feel like getting off and carrying my bike for 20 yards now whenever I see builders' detritus :-(