How's your luck? - 2 Punctures
 

Just cleaned the bike and noticed there is a punture in both the front and the rear tyre! NICE!


So unless anyone has any better ideas i'm ofrf to Watlings on Monday morning to part with £44 for two repairs.........

Re: How's your luck? - 2 Punctures
 

Part 2: :(

Limped the bike down to Watlings in Gravesend, just before the front gave up and lost pressure..........only just made it.

On the way I could smell a burning smell coming from the bike, but as I was trying to concentrate on keeping the bike upright I decided to take a look when I got there.

Pulled into one of the bays and the smell was really awful, anyway a guy came up to me and said "did you know you have that there?" pointing to a waitrose carrier bag which was wrapped around my pipe.

Terrific what a start to a week...........should've stayed in bed.

Mind you £50 later and punctures are fixed and the wheels balanced.

Kwak - if you reed this can you advise on how to remove Waitrose bags from my previously shiny pipe?:(

Re: How's your luck? - 2 Punctures
 

Wire brush and autosol. I've not tried it on waitrose bags, but it removes "melted sole of girlfriend's boot". :)

Re: How's your luck? - 2 Punctures
 

I've scraped some of it off whilst it was still warm, but on the front pipe it has gone crusty - can't believe how bad my luck is at the moment.................I have just done the worst possible thing and checked my bank balance too.

Re: How's your luck? - 2 Punctures
 

I got one struck on mine yesterday. Was about to post a "how do I" question.

I'm hoping someone will say you can disolve it off with a petrol/parafin soaked rag?

Re: How's your luck? - 2 Punctures
 

Ouch, unlucky.

Speaking of lucky/unlucky, when I got my last set of tyres put on at local shop, I got a puncture on the way there! Bahaha.. but it was ok because only happened with a few hundred meters of the shop.

Re: How's your luck? - 2 Punctures
 

Aw bad luck. Wouldn't a wirebrush scratch the pipe a bit too much? Try a solvent of autosol. I had a bike cover stuck to my pipe, and I ended up peeling it off gently with a stanley knife blade.

Re: How's your luck? - 2 Punctures
 

Be carefull of Watling Tyres Gravesend. They arn't as "carefull" as i'd like, they also scratched up our VXR 19" alloys, and stole the metal valve caps :mad: by the time i realised, it was too late really.

They've scratched my old SV wheels too. But they are fairly cheap.

If it makes you feel any better, i got a puncture on the Bandito in the first week of picking it up :mad:

Re: How's your luck? - 2 Punctures
 

I didn't really have much choice as they are the closest and the one in Dartford doesn't remove the wheels, I watch over them quite closely and they seemed ok.

The carrier bag is the worst bit.

You must have a few miles on the Bandito now?

Re: How's your luck? - 2 Punctures
 

8200 miles. Bought in mid feb.....

3 services already :! New bike running costs suck. Can't wait to service it myself, save a fortune.

Tyres done well to hold up. Only just replaced the 020's on it, 8000 miles front n rear....