tips for smokers

[dirtrider]

Last weekend while going down the single track downhill at the Monument I lost a knobbly on the rear wheel . I knew that the plugs I got in my pack will not seal this hole and sat down under a tree to have a fag before walking home . But while sitting it hit me . At the end of my beloved Camel there is a filter (for non-smokers , that is the bit those smelly , inconsiderate , selfish people flick out of their car windows) and this filter looks about the right size for the hole in tyre . So into the hole the filter goes but the Stans do not really want to do its job and the seal is not good . Out comes the glue and matches . Lotsa glue on the filter and set it all alight . Before the inferno gets out of hand I pressed it all with my finger (rather use a rock or stick) onto the tyre . Today I replaced the tyre and it was still fully inflated .

 

 

BTW this is the kukkest tyre I have ever seen . It had terrible grip , did not last long , puncture easily and when it gets to the state this one was in sheds more knobblies than my dogs sheds it hair .

 

[andretraut]

That is a smoking hot tip, will carry a Marlboro in the saddle bag, although I try to refrain from riding and smoking at the same time!

[Thug]

hahaha, that will teach you to buy tyres from Pick 'n Pay or Shoprite.

 

R 0 .99 c bargains just do not work !

[Johan Bornman]

Nice trick, but I really have a moral problem with carrying a stompie in my puncture repair kit. Besides, it would not have worked for me, I wouldn't have had matches on me.

 

But I reluctantly have to agree, you have just scored the world's only point for smoking.

[dirtrider]

only point !!! You really don't know how much you can do with that stompie ICE !!

[TNOSE_E]

Somewhat limited to it's target audience but ingenious non the less.

 

 

Tip for non smokers. Glue a folded 2l coke bottle label on the inside as a gator.

[pierre.s]

Tip for all :

 

I was once a good 10km from any civilization and without any repair kit, when I got a puncture. I started racing back but after about 2 km I was on the rim. Not wanting to jog 8 kms, I took out the tube and after about 20mins, the tyre was chock full of dry grass (don't smoke it, Dirt-Rider !!) !! Just grab handfulls of it and shove it in.

 

The going was slow and bumpy, but it kept me off the rim !! B)

[dirtrider]

30km from home , mmmmmm maybe not but surely that will also work . But I did say this tip is for smokers !!! I also prefer to rather smoke the grass than stuff it into my tyres .

[zork]

nice one!

[Guest Big H]

Goeie een Vuil Ryer..... net jammer jy self stink nog steeds vir ander mense van die rook en nikotien.

[jugheaddave]

lol, nice one

[BrendonMyb]

what an ingenious idea - I have to admit it would have escaped my mind & i probably would haver ended up pushing back to the car park

[splat]

That makes McGyver look quite pedestrian.

Nice one!

[pastapouch]

 

But I reluctantly have to agree, you have just scored the world's only point for smoking.

no it isn't ... if girls smoke... just have a clothes peg handy for your nose as well

[Paddaman]

dirt rider next time u need to buy cheap tyres go and get killer bees or some other well known tyre on special. Don't realy on a 1 for 3 free brand even if it says tubeless.

 

Yes I know we are in a recession, but some one of your stature should know rubbish at first sit.

[Cassie]

Tell us more about that tyre....is it a cheap chinese/Taiwanese/indian/eastern import?

 

How much cheaper that a normal tyre was it?