The Puncture Diaries

Facts and figures from the road


Total puncture count to date: 12


Olly: 6
Lorna: 6
  1. 05/08/18 Lorna - front wheel.  Culprit almost definitely some of the glass on the cycle path in Wellington.  Disappointing on day 2 of the trip!  And further stalled our arrival in Shrewsbury.
  2. 07/08/18 Olly - back wheel.  Culprit: a thorn.  Quick change at Foxholes Campsite and now down to only one spare inner tube.
  3. 01/10/18 Olly - front wheel.  Strong winds made riding really unpleasant.  Olly's front wheel completely blew out and he took a bad fall, fortunately on an empty road. 
  4. 15/11/18 Olly - front wheel. Talk to Olly about the morning stroll we took today... We waded through mud for two hours travelling only 2km in that time. Post off-road trudge, Olly got a flat.
  5. 17/11/18 Lorna - back wheel. After sitting comfortably in Carlo's garage for two nights, events of two days previous caught up with the Genesis.
  6. 12/03/19 Lorna - back wheel.  5km left to go of a 90km day along under the hot, humid, tropical, Thai sun.  Everything went wobbly.  Initially suspected the pedals.  Staple in my back wheel.
  7. 20/04/19 Lorna - back wheel. Started the day with a long, gradual descent. Everything went wobbly; this again. Staple in the back wheel. After 9200km, the tyres are now really wearing thin. I've overtaken Olly for the first time.
  8. 03/06/19 Lorna - front wheel. Could not find a cause of puncture. Cycling in Chengdu, en route to the train station.
  9. 12/08/19 Olly - back wheel.  Couldn't find the source of the flat tyre, but it was likely the prickly ground we had left our bikes on overnight at a work-in-progress campsite in Fethiye, Turkey.  Without finding the true culprit, this felt like a continuation of the string of bad luck that had been following us around since "the van accident" two days previous.
  10. 12/08/19 Lorna - front wheel.  As above +1
  11. 29/08/19 Olly - front wheel. We'll call it "one", but really it was three! Repaired inner tubes starting to suffer in the heat. Time to buy some new ones.
  12. 23/11/19 Olly - front wheel. No obvious culprit; a slow puncture.

Comments

  1. Are you running a poll on how many punctures in total you will get :)

    Punctures during Ride London were a menace, apparently due to the wind and heavy rain washing debris across the road! Mile 22(ish), riding in a group of 4, Paul gets a puncture so we all stop to sort it out (no surprises that they had not practiced how to do it), even before we had repaired this puncture, Connors front tyre lets out an audible 'hisss' and it too is flat !! It turns out the tube just split around the base of the valve. Then we spot a woman trying to make a phone call to get help - she also has a rear puncture - so I volunteer the lads to help fix hers - which meant me actually doing the work lol. However, her rear tyre was a real pig to get off so all in all we ended spending around 20 mins fixing punctures - and we were frozen because of the wind and the rain - those riding jerseys aren't very thick!

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