Tips on How to Repair a Punctured Bike Inner Tube

Why Is It Becoming Tougher and Harder To Pedal

You happen to be cycling down your favourite dirt trail considering nothing but what you might see around the next turn in the bend when it occurs. You hear an incredibly loud noise come from your rear tire after which your pedalling really becomes pretty challenging. Right after you regain your composure, you turn to determine that your back tire no longer has any air left in it. Despite the fact that this was your first flat tire, you'll be able to now count yourself privileged because this article will give you your bicycle repair remedy. An effective procedure to get that flat tire repaired will be covered off within this post to ensure that you'll be able to get back on your bike and get started pedalling once more.

How to Repair That Flat Tire - Enter the Patch Kit

Luck is on your side today because a fast check inside your rear pocket of the jersey you find a tire patch kit. What follows is a detailed walk through on tips on how to patch that puncture instead of just putting the inner tube into the trash bin. From my knowledge, the typical rider for some reason would rather just get rid of the old inner tube and put on a new one. Why invest the money on a brand new inner tube when the old one can still be used as soon as it has a patch on it.

Take off the Tire First

To start off with, you will want to get the wheel and rim off of your bike so that you can take off the tire and the punctured inner tube. Take the inner tube and find the punctured region. An awesome technique to do this is to inflate the tire in order that it holds a tiny bit of air. As soon as you add air back into the tube, it can quickly start to blow out from the hole. Now that the tube has some air in it, simply put the tube into water and you will immediately see the source of your leak because it will be bubbling. Puncture located, now what?

Time to Glue

Open up your tire patch kit and see that it not only contains glue and patches, like you would anticipate, it also contains some sandpaper. The sandpaper is going to be made use of to roughen up the region around the hole in your inner tube. After that is accomplished you'll need to open your glue container. Squeeze the glue onto your inner tube to ensure that it liberally covers an area bigger than the patch which you are going to use. With this step complete, have a seat and loosen up because you will now have to set it aside and let the glue dry. This really is exactly where loads of folks make the error and not let the glue dry (it must dry first so leave it for about five minutes).

With the Glue Now Dry Let’s Move On

Now you'll need to take one of several patches that came with your kit and set it over top of your glued area making certain to cover the hole. Believe it or not the glue will stick to your patch despite the fact that it now feels dry.

Tube Sealed and You’re Off

That’s all there is to it. With the hole sealed, you can now place the inner tube back inside your tire and fit them both back onto your bike rim. Before you do that though, you did ensure that what ever caused you this flat tire is no longer there to hamper you any longer, right? After the tire is back on the rim you may re-inflate it back to standard cycling pressures. The only thing still left to do now is to just get back onto your bike and think about where it is you should ride next.