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On Jun 8, 7:37 am, "Tom Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:
> <b...@mambo.ucolick.org> wrote in message > > news:78356569-acde-47fc-9cf2-3ef7f7c3512c@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... > > >http://www.ucolick.org/~bjw/misc/rbt/badflat.jpg > > I had one that went straight in and rammed a hole through rim half-way > between two spoke holes. It went in so deeply and tightly that I had to get > a screwdriver from someone in the group and unscrew it to get it out. > > 10 years later we were sitting around in an outdoor coffee shop and started > talking about that and there was a guy there who I'd given the wheels to who > was still using it with the extra spoke hole. They were mounted on the bike > he was riding! I had a nail going through the tire, tube and rim tape into the spoke hole. I kept chaning tubes and having blowouts. I couldn't figure out why until I saw the hole in the rim tape. When I went home and was patching the tubes I noticed that one was punctured in two opposite sides. Thats when I realized that the nail had gone through the tire, tube and rim tape. |
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