Re: [Bikies] Sharing a cool tire hack: a dollar bill to fix a sidewall tear

2018-07-04 Thread Paul T. O'Leary via Bikies
On 2018/07/02 14:23, Mendota Hills via Bikies wrote: Scott wrote: Canadian bills - made of plastic - work even better. But the smallest denomination is a fiver. As current exchange rate, that's a US$3.80 patch :-) https://www.bankofcanada.ca That's cheaper than what you could buy on Amazon,

Re: [Bikies] Sharing a cool tire hack: a dollar bill to fix a sidewall tear

2018-07-02 Thread Mendota Hills via Bikies
Scott wrote: > Canadian bills - made of plastic - work even better. But the smallest > denomination is a fiver. As current exchange rate, that's a US$3.80 patch :-) https://www.bankofcanada.ca That's cheaper than what you could buy on Amazon, even if one of their drones could deliver it to

Re: [Bikies] Sharing a cool tire hack: a dollar bill to fix a sidewall tear

2018-07-01 Thread Robbie via Bikies
Wisconsin bike law cards -- put out by the Bike Fed and WisDOT -- work as well. They are laminated, so pretty strong. Robbie Webber State Smart Transportation Initiative www.ssti.us 608-263-9984 (office) 608-225-0002 (cell) On Sun, Jul 1, 2018, 1:20 PM Harry Read via Bikies wrote: > Yesterday

Re: [Bikies] Sharing a cool tire hack: a dollar bill to fix a sidewall tear

2018-07-01 Thread Scott Morris Rose via Bikies
Canadian bills - made of plastic - work even better. But the smallest denomination is a fiver. On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 11:20 AM Harry Read via Bikies < bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote: > Yesterday I found that one of the Gatorskin tires on my commuter bike has > a small tear in the sidewall. I

[Bikies] Sharing a cool tire hack: a dollar bill to fix a sidewall tear

2018-07-01 Thread Harry Read via Bikies
Yesterday I found that one of the Gatorskin tires on my commuter bike has a small tear in the sidewall. I discovered this after getting a flat, patching the inner tube, and then having it go flat again--with a pop and rapid loss of pressure. After patching the inner tube again, I spotted the tear,