Riding along this morning when I became aware of a quiet intermittent thrum (at approx wheel rotation speed).
Figuring something had been thrown up and and stuck in my spokes I quickly glanced down and couldn't see anything.
The thrum rapidly got worse, second look and still couldn't see anything.
By now it was at the OMG-something-really-bad-is-about-to-happen stage so I stopped pedalling and went into my "don't touch anything just roll to a stop" mode.
It was at this point I saw the guy with a large hedgecutter...
<edit> just to add, this wasn't a puncture - it was the noise of the hedgecutter I could hear.
Thrumming noise
Thrumming noise
Last edited by kwackers on 6 Oct 2018, 12:49pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Followed by the click, click, click as the wheels go round. 
First thorn puncture in 3 years last Monday.
The thorn, in the side wall, was still attached to the bit of branch that it grew on. Clicked every time it passed the brake shoe.
Edit- (Sorry Kwackers, not meant that you had a puncture but it was the wheel rotation that got the grey cells responding. I went down a lane that had recently be hedge mowed and that was my outcome. It took me a while to realise what the clicking was as I thought it was something in the front tyre. )
First thorn puncture in 3 years last Monday.
The thorn, in the side wall, was still attached to the bit of branch that it grew on. Clicked every time it passed the brake shoe.
Edit- (Sorry Kwackers, not meant that you had a puncture but it was the wheel rotation that got the grey cells responding. I went down a lane that had recently be hedge mowed and that was my outcome. It took me a while to realise what the clicking was as I thought it was something in the front tyre.
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Last edited by cycleruk on 6 Oct 2018, 2:48pm, edited 2 times in total.
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cycleruk wrote:Followed by the click, click, click as the wheels go round.
First thorn puncture in 3 years last Monday.
The thorn, in the side wall, was still attached to the bit of branch that it grew on. Clicked every time it passed the brake shoe.
A puncture I had many years ago manifested itself as a steam train.
I was suddenly aware of this 'chuff, chuff, chuff' noise.
Hole was in the 'top' of the tyre so I could hear a hiss that was muted every revolution as it went over the floor.
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First puncture I ever had - aged 11? - I didn't know what the hiss-hiss-hiss was. It sounded like I'd ridden over a piece of wire and it was making a rhythmic hissing sound as I rode along.
I had to walk home.
I had to walk home.
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At this time of year, I often get bits of twig, or leaves sticking to the tyre, and then Jamming against the fork or brakes, and it sounds like the hiss of a puncture.
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Marcus Aurelius wrote:At this time of year, I often get bits of twig, or leaves sticking to the tyre, and then Jamming against the fork or brakes, and it sounds like the hiss of a puncture.
Had a wet leaf do that on Saturday - it eventually cleared but it's damn annoying!
Convention? what's that then?
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