Good Tips to Avoid Tyre Punctures
Hello Beautiful People!!
How is your Autumn riding going? Few Km's here and there or your avid cycling spirit is keeping you pedalling?
No matter how often you ride, if you are on a bike once a year or everyday you still run the risk of remaining victim of one of the most painful troubles when you are out having fun: a tyre puncture, also known as flat tyre. The effects this can have on your ride are quite various, from brutally annoying to highly dramatic, particularly if it happens when you are located the furthest away possible from your starting point, i.e. your house or your car.
In this post we wish to provide you and your friends/relatives with few tips which may well help you out in reducing changes to suffer this time/cost consuming trouble. So, here we go:
1) Try as much as you can to avoid riding on glass or scrapped metal. Yes, we can hear you "Elementary Watson!", but I guess we had to make sure we did not leave this out. In the event you suspect you have ridden through glass then stop gently and pull aside, get off the bike and use your hands to gently find glass on the tyre. Make sure your roll your fingers slowly and with care around your wheels and not the opposite, to avoid injuries;
2) Be pro-active in your pre- and post-ride checks. Periodically inspect your tyres for nails or glass. Before a big race or a long ride with mates it is vital to check your bike in all its major components and parts, in particular to check your tyres thoroughly. Examine these carefully and remove any glass or nail embedded within. If you don't straight away the over time these glasses or metal pieces will work their way through the tyres, leaving you with a painful flat tyre when you least expect it;
3) Don't save few dollars on something important for your safety as well as fun. Periodically replace your tyres when worn out or badly cut. Sudden puncture or multiple punctures generally are the result of very old tyres needing to be changed with new ones. When a bad cut into your tyre becomes quite evident, no matter how new your tyre might be, just simply replace it. It will be the best possible move.
4) Perhaps you did not know but the inner tube inside your tyre will not last an entire life. In fact, you need to replace these once every 18 months or so, checking the valve and and making sure there are no evident leaks from it. Valves in tubeless can be quite tricky to deal with, make sure you inspect these as a routine.
Last but not least: take extra care in wet roads and during raining rides. In these conditions the chances of getting a puncture are higher. It helps if you also have some spare tyres and tubes in your tool-bag underneath your saddle. Also, if someone is stuck in the middle of the road and in need of a tube, you will be their hero!!
That is all for today!
Hope you enjoyed the tips above.
Kind Regards,
Mario, Maria and Roberto
---> http://italianbicycles.com.au
That is all for today!
Hope you enjoyed the tips above.
Kind Regards,
Mario, Maria and Roberto
---> http://italianbicycles.com.au
