On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 19:07:54 -0700 (PDT), Andy
wrote:

On Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 8:14:14 PM UTC-5, David Scheidt wrote:
Andy wrote:
:On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 8:41:51 PM UTC-5, David Scheidt wrote:
: AMuzi wrote:
: :On 8/10/2018 5:36 PM, jbeattie wrote:
: : On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 12:33:29 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
: : On 8/10/2018 3:09 PM, David Scheidt wrote:
: : Andy wrote:
:
: :-snip snip-
:
: :I'll keep patching if it has sentimental value or its some
: :weird size that I need.
: :
: : -- Jay Beattie.
: :
:
: :Huh.
: :I thought I was as maladjusted and psychologically damaged
: :as anyone on RBT, but I can't say I ever felt sentiment for
: :a tube. YMMV of course.
:
: I had a tube that was made in the month I was born. It had ~25
: patches in it. Its demise, at age 35 or so, was a tire that should
: have been replaced a few miles before it split down the middle of the
: tread.

:Were you born during the Depression?

The Ford Administration.

:I thought my father was frugal. :-)

There's no reason to toss a tube just because it's got a few holes in
it. These days, I discard tubes hwne the valves fail.

https://imgur.com/a/wKGLIvd



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sig 40

With 25 patches, it's probably more puncture resistant that a new tube.

Most of my flats show up when I am at home where it's easy to fix.

I should care a spare.

Should I get one of those mini pumps or is one of those CO2 rigs worth it?

Andy

I have had a number of CO2 rigs and they are are certainly not all
created equally, and some barely work, right out of the box. If you
plan to use them I would suggest that you buy a couple of spare CO2
tubes and practice a bit. I had one, for example, that if you opened
the valve fully it would get so cold that ice would form. Hard to
inflate a tire with ice :-)

Some mini pumps are quite powerful. I have one that I can quite easily
inflate a tire to 100 psi, but, as Frank noted, they take a lot of
pumping to get here.