Great video, useful hacks. Velcro straps, duct tape, and reusable cable ties are so easy and light to store on the frame. They should be standard equipment.
Wow, my first thought was to use an innertube patch kit and put an inside patch extending over and beyond the slit. The patch is the boot. If you have enough patching material, you could do an internal and external patch with the inner tube patching material.
I've used tyre slugs for cars ina large cut (they're about 10mm round these slugs not the small bacon strips that mtb use), mixed with liquid rubber made a very good fix. Obviously not fast as the glue has to dry but it worked well
Never too old to learn a new trick👍 Gafer tape round the pump is so handy used it once in middle of nowhere to hold my knee together after an off while I limped back to civilisation
Things that can be cut up etc. to work as a barrier for an inner tube... Drink Bottle Helmet Peak Credit card (Start with non credit things like a Subway card etc. Flax (Some plant leaves are incredibly tough... and if diagonally layered can be as strong as a side wall... Unfortunately Flax is common in NZ but maybe not in a town near u...) Shoe innersole (sometimes the answer is right at your feet). Shoe tongue If you did a sidewall and inner tube but have a spare innertube... Use the old inner tube as a patch The plastic lid of a cheap old school yellow patch kit. Cellphone rubber protector or flip "leather" cover etc. Handlebar grip... riding home with one bare handle may still be better than pushing home. Underpants/shirt.... Wind it round the innertube so it supports itself as a tube rather than extruding itself as a one side patch. Also... Cable Ties... You can actually stitch the slice together if all you have is an inner tube, cable ties and a pocket knife or sharp spike. Putting things round the outside of the tyre may help if that's the only option, but is less effective than inside
What yout own hact that you have showed in hacks and bodges? The piece freman´s of hose? I used this and also helped few of my friends to get home and you can also repair the tire with it...
No boot…..this got me out of the Sierra backcountry more then a few times….Sew a baseball stitch to close the split, then duct tape the back side of the split. Lastly, wrap a dollar bill around the tube as a reinforcement
I HATE those mini air pumps. I bought a small portable compressor that's about the size of a trashy novel. I always carry it with me along with and extra tube and a patch kit I bought at Autozone. The car tire kits come with those large patch strips and they are WAAAY cheaper then buying bike specific patch kits. the portable compressor is a gift from the gods.
I did ones have a tyre at the place of the rim but was on a 29+ bikepacking bike no bike store or something so I did use some needle and thread to repair it in the forest and it stay strong for another 800 km
A lot of Swiss Army knives come with an awl (large needle - big hole) that you could use to thread something like dental floss or punch holes to thread zip ties.
Plastic Australian dollar notes make great tyre boots. Impress your mates with a $50 note fix and then shout them a drink when you get round to fixing/ changing the tyre later 👍
#gmbntech. Hi Anna and Doddy. I am using a cheap, mechanical turbo trainer with my hardtail to train when I can’t get outside but there’s no consistent momentum and the back wheel is partially stalling after every pedal press - it’s not like real riding at all. I thought that filling the inner tube with water instead or air might give it more angular momentum but how would I get it in there? Any ideas? Or do you know a better way to make a cheap turbo trainer more realistic/like riding a real bike.
See julianhawker comment above. There are many kinds of suture material including gut and silk, dissolving and some that look and feel like fishing line. I wouldn't say that most are any better than good old polyester in a heavy duty thickness. I would, if possible still slather them in rubber cement afterwards. Spacing and stich type would be like that seen on a baseball.
@@fallenhobbit6554 You will never be able to feel and remove all the thorns, nails and glass out of the casing.. Coming from a 30yr experience "newbie"
