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Re: Cash In Your Tyres

TOB — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:21:02 -0000

BUT, don't try to make the tire/bill combo last longer than your ride home...I tried making my slashed tire last for several more rides (it was a small slice, after all) and kept the dollar bill in place for...well, awhile:

flat, flat, flat, flat, flat

due to the tire pressure against the edge of the bill, over time.

I learned!

Re: Cash In Your Tyres

kurtdriver — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:34:39 -0000

A couple of thick leaves would work too, not pine needles mind you, but something deciduous, watch the poison ivy. This would leave more for the coffee fund. Kurt

Re: Cash In Your Tyres

Cornel — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:43:26 -0000

a fiver ?

Find a small piece of plastic that would be suitable for a sidewall rip and tape it to the small handwipe packet you saved from the fast-food place you always go to. The moist wipe will lubricate the final lip of the tire and tube that you have to seat onto the rim and then you wipe your hands, pump it up and bust your move to get back on the road.

And the fiver should be a tenner what with the cost of anything rising as it has been lately.

Re: Cash In Your Tyres

David Rafferton — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:38:35 -0000

I had to do this once on my wife's bike after a nail ripped open the sidewall of an Ultreamo. Only problem was I only had a $50 note on me. Putting that into a tyre and riding 40km home with a bit of the note exposed out the side of the tyre was nerve wracking.. LOL

Re: Cash In Your Tyres

Havefundontfall — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:19:35 -0000

Looking at the price of tyres these days, I am sure some of them already come with a note or two pre packed LOL

Re: Cash In Your Tyres

me — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:30:40 -0000

and a bit of the left over gel smeared over the packet hold it in place while you pump the tyre up.

Re: Cash In Your Tyres

Michal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:47:56 -0000

For those who don't carry cash around (I'm looking at you Camel), a spent powergel wrapper works just as well.

Re: Cash In Your Tyres

Jeremy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:47:55 -0000

Works well with polymer notes for us Aussies, especially in the wet, but I dunno for our North American cousins ;-).