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07-05-08, 04:11 PM
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BANG! ... ooohhh is that a puncture?
Yes it is/was ...
 The second one I have had in a fairly shot space in time (<300 miles) ... Riding along in the beautiful sunshine minding my own business and I hear this BANG! ... sounded like a tyre explosion ... took a quick gander as I was rolling along and my tyres didn't seem to have gone down, so I kept riding ... coupla miles time and it was all still fine, so just wrote it off as one of those things .. Anyway, got back after ~60 mile round trip and what did I see in my tyre?!?!? Yep the head of a nail ... a bit of spit on top and there were some very small bubbles, so I got in there and started digging it out .... to be honest, I haven't even taken it all the way out yet and look what it is/was!!   I now see that bang probably was me - something that big is going to make quite a noise being forced through a tyre in a millisecond!!
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07-05-08, 04:12 PM
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Re: BANG! ... ooohhh is that a puncture?
just leave it in there, it'll plug the hole
 
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07-05-08, 04:18 PM
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Re: BANG! ... ooohhh is that a puncture?
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Indeed, which is why I was able to continue on my ~60 mile trip  Unfortunately it is leaking though, so would go flat eventually so I can't just leave it like that
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07-05-08, 04:19 PM
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Re: BANG! ... ooohhh is that a puncture?
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07-05-08, 04:44 PM
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Re: BANG! ... ooohhh is that a puncture?
Tyre looks fairly used anyway. Hey ho. New tyre time.
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07-05-08, 05:04 PM
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Re: BANG! ... ooohhh is that a puncture?
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I was thinking of just pushing the bolt/nail back in again and perhaps putting some black paint over the head/top ... you would never know the difference!! 
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07-05-08, 05:19 PM
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Re: BANG! ... ooohhh is that a puncture?
Don't forget the black paint, it'll make all the difference
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07-05-08, 05:22 PM
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(If you don't mind the squared effect when turning!) |
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07-05-08, 05:59 PM
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Re: BANG! ... ooohhh is that a puncture?
Seems to be a bit of screwed rod like we use at work. Think you were pretty lucky there!
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