Problem # 1 - fixing a bicycle puncture


My bicycle has been sitting in the office out of use for nearly a month now.

Murray borrowed it for a quick ride up to view a flat, within 2 minutes he'd got a double puncture, probably from a broken bottle outside the Drunken Monkey.

It took two of us nearly an hour to fix both wheels. After much blood, sweat and tears the task was completed. 5 minutes later, I get the bike ready to ride home and the front tyre is completely flat again. It appeared that the Presta valve got bent during our tugging and panting (no, not like that).

So I've now bought another new inner tube, and some tyre levers, but it's already taken 20 minutes to get the tyre off.

This video makes it look easy - am I missing something here?!





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