Most expensive puncture repair

[thelawnet]

Rather foolishly left home with no tube and a poor quality pump. Garage door cable had snapped and got embedded in the tyre. Phone signal was not good so didn't think to call the approx four or five bike shops within 3 miles.

Anyway £15 plus £7 for the tube was the damage at a random LBS (which was actually further away than Evans , though Evans was in the wrong direction)

Evans charge £5 plus probably the same for the tube.

I went into Decathlon and they want £8.50 including tube.

Lesson to self: bring a spare tube and functioning pump. Oh and if there are multiple choices, stop, phone and make sure they're not going to rip you off before you head that way...

Anyway at £22 as far as I am concerned we can do without such shops

[Marcus Aurelius]

Rather foolishly left home with no tube and a poor quality pump. Garage door cable had snapped and got embedded in the tyre. Phone signal was not good so didn't think to call the approx four or five bike shops within 3 miles.

Anyway £15 plus £7 for the tube was the damage at a random LBS (which was actually further away than Evans , though Evans was in the wrong direction)

Evans charge £5 plus probably the same for the tube.

I went into Decathlon and they want £8.50 including tube.

Lesson to self: bring a spare tube and functioning pump. Oh and if there are multiple choices, stop, phone and make sure they're not going to rip you off before you head that way...

Anyway at £22 as far as I am concerned we can do without such shops

I agree. However, you’d be astonished how many people will just pay it, without even attempting to sort the puncture out themselves, or shop around, or even have any kit for sorting punctures with them.

[TrevA]

I always leave spare tubes, multitool, repair kit, etc attached to my bike in seat pack and pump on the down tube. That way, you can’t forget them.

Had a similar incident where I ripped the sidewall of my tyre and the nearest shop was a Halfords, but the tyres were quite reasonably priced.

[dim]

problem at places like Evans, is that they will tell you to leave the bike there and come back in 4hrs (I had a slow puncture in Cambridge and Rutlands told me to leave the bike and come back later as they were 'too busy')

The LBS that I use charges £9 and I feel that is a good price .... they sort it in 5 minutes while you wait

[pete75]

When my son was cycling to Lincoln he got a second puncture having used his spare tube and with no repair outfit. He went into the bike shop in Sleaford and the shop guy fixed it at no charge - with a patch of course. Guess this is the opposite to the OP's experience though.

[mjr]

I always leave spare tubes, multitool, repair kit, etc attached to my bike in seat pack and pump on the down tube. That way, you can’t forget them.

You can when you take a different bike... unless you have a repair kit attached to each bike but that gets expensive and annoying in at least two major ways.

[pete75]

I always leave spare tubes, multitool, repair kit, etc attached to my bike in seat pack and pump on the down tube. That way, you can’t forget them.

You can when you take a different bike... unless you have a repair kit attached to each bike but that gets expensive and annoying in at least two major ways.

Eh? don't understand how it can be annoying and a reasonable on bike repair kit costs no more than 20 quid so even if you have 10 bikes it's only £200.

[mjr]

I always leave spare tubes, multitool, repair kit, etc attached to my bike in seat pack and pump on the down tube. That way, you can’t forget them.

You can when you take a different bike... unless you have a repair kit attached to each bike but that gets expensive and annoying in at least two major ways.

Eh? don't understand how it can be annoying

Making sure the tubes or patches don't perish, making sure no-one's "borrowed" a bit from any of them, keeping all the tools in good fettle, and so on. And almost no-one has as many copies of their best hex keys as they do bikes.

and a reasonable on bike repair kit costs no more than 20 quid so even if you have 10 bikes it's only £200.

Even if it were so (and I think that's too cheap to get reasonable quality), that's £200 better spent on bike parts!

I'd advise keeping one good toolkit in the saddlebag and move it out on the rare occasion you're riding far without a saddlebag.

[Cyril Haearn]

Some people might have ten bikes, but all in working order and in regular use?

[pete75]

You can when you take a different bike... unless you have a repair kit attached to each bike but that gets expensive and annoying in at least two major ways.

Eh? don't understand how it can be annoying

Making sure the tubes or patches don't perish, making sure no-one's "borrowed" a bit from any of them, keeping all the tools in good fettle, and so on. And almost no-one has as many copies of their best hex keys as they do bikes.

and a reasonable on bike repair kit costs no more than 20 quid so even if you have 10 bikes it's only £200.

Even if it were so (and I think that's too cheap to get reasonable quality), that's £200 better spent on bike parts!

I'd advise keeping one good toolkit in the saddlebag and move it out on the rare occasion you're riding far without a saddlebag.

I'd have thought that if someone has ten bikes they use regularly all you describe is as easily done as if they use one bike regularly.

What's a hex key - something used by witches?

£200 quid is under a day's pay or at least it was when I was working. Anyhow if someone wants to spend 200 quid or more equipping several bikes with a repair kit that's up to them not you.

[Cyril Haearn]

How can one use ten bikes regularly, does each one go out three times a month? Or could one use several different cycles in one day?
(Just started a thread about this)

[Morzedec]

Cycling every day in France (no car) all my bikes get used on a regular basis, depending on things like distance, load, speed, and just having fun.
I have a tool roll that contains all my spares, tubes, and a Mars bar, and it gets chucked into the bar bag each day before I set off so I'm never without.
Just a few miles from home and a puncture? - chuck the bike over your shoulder, and walk.

Happy days,

[pete75]

Cycling every day in France (no car) all my bikes get used on a regular basis, depending on things like distance, load, speed, and just having fun.
I have a tool roll that contains all my spares, tubes, and a Mars bar, and it gets chucked into the bar bag each day before I set off so I'm never without.
Just a few miles from home and a puncture? - chuck the bike over your shoulder, and walk.

Happy days,

Is that a Watsonian?

[rjb]

Cycling every day in France (no car) all my bikes get used on a regular basis, depending on things like distance, load, speed, and just having fun.
I have a tool roll that contains all my spares, tubes, and a Mars bar, and it gets chucked into the bar bag each day before I set off so I'm never without.
Just a few miles from home and a puncture? - chuck the bike over your shoulder, and walk.

Happy days,

Is that a Watsonian?

You can put a nail in the coffin here!

[foxyrider]

I always leave spare tubes, multitool, repair kit, etc attached to my bike in seat pack and pump on the down tube. That way, you can’t forget them.

You can when you take a different bike... unless you have a repair kit attached to each bike but that gets expensive and annoying in at least two major ways.

worth the expense in my book - been caught too many times lacking one element or other. As a result each bike has its own pump fitted, size specific tube, levers, patches and multitool in a seat pack - at one point each commuting steed had its own lights too (but i don't do that anymore!)