today, i filled my rear tyre with grass.....what do you do?

zetecmk2 · Jul 14, 2013

apart from the obvious "take a tube/etc" answers.
i was only riding to a horse show about 7 miles away....psssssss!!!!
remembered a write up in a mag about emergency repairs......so i filled my rear tyre with grass......got me home!!!!
it was a bit hot to not be riding. i had nothing to loose.....and it worked!
what have you done to get home?

We_are_Stevo · Jul 14, 2013

Re: today, i filled my rear tyre with grass.....what do you

They'll still catch you; those little Spaniels are b*stards!

lumos2000 · Jul 14, 2013

Re: today, i filled my rear tyre with grass.....what do you

I normaly fill my bar ends

jimo746 · Jul 14, 2013

Re: today, i filled my rear tyre with grass.....what do you

I once took the front tyre and tube off and rode back over the fields on just the rim, got me home!
Now I always carry a spare tube (or two), plus a puncture repair kit.

Trebz · Jul 14, 2013

Re: today, i filled my rear tyre with grass.....what do you

BITD I used a Marathon wrapper to get me home and that was half way around a Levisham . Goathland loop. Hehe.

Piers · Jul 15, 2013

Re: today, i filled my rear tyre with grass.....what do you

Crisp packets scavenged from the undergrowth to cover a cut in the side wall of a tyre.

Zip ties to hold tyre onto a very split rim.

Chopper the ex Copper · Jul 15, 2013

Re: today, i filled my rear tyre with grass.....what do you

In the unlikely even my slime tubes gov up the ghost I fit a spare, or phone Woman to pick me up in the Landie.

TSC. · Jul 16, 2013

Re: today, i filled my rear tyre with grass.....what do you

Split the sidewall on the road bike's rear tyre on Friday - called out the 'team car' for a replacement bike...

D'oh!

zetecmk2 · Jul 16, 2013

Re: today, i filled my rear tyre with grass.....what do you

team car couldn't be called........she was team horse that day, no boot space at all!!!

Neil · Jul 16, 2013

Re: today, i filled my rear tyre with grass.....what do you

Trebz":3ppd6ktt said:
BITD I used a Marathon wrapper to get me home and that was half way around a Levisham . Goathland loop. Hehe.

I've got to ask, it's been itching at me for a day or so - how did you use the Marathon wrapper (and props for accuracy, it would have been Marathon BITD, and not "Snickers" (spit))?

today, i filled my rear tyre with grass.....what do you do?

zetecmk2

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