Life hack: how to protect bicycle wheels from punctures
A bicycle wheel puncture is not uncommon during its operation. Moreover, more often this does not happen from hitting a nail, self-tapping screw, screw or other sharp metal object, but from small pointed materials such as wood thorns, shards of broken glass and other small but sharp obstacles.
How to simply and affordably protect your bicycle wheels from punctures
You can get rid of their negative impact on a bicycle tire with a tube by using a strip of linoleum, the length of which is slightly greater than the outside circumference of the wheel, and the width overlaps the tire tread in the transverse direction.
We unbolt the punctured wheel, remove the damaged tube and check the tire for the presence of an object that damaged the bicycle tires. We put a mark on the side of the tire with a marker and wrap a strip of linoleum around it on the outside. We cut off the excess, leaving a small margin in length, in order to avoid a gap between the ends of the linoleum when applying pressure to the chamber and thereby elongating the tire somewhat.
Assembling the tire onto the wheel rim and installing the tube inside the tire will be somewhat difficult due to the presence of a strip of linoleum, but not so much that it is impossible to do. After assembly, for the same reason, it is discovered that the camera is bent. Every effort must be made to ensure that this elongation is evenly distributed over the entire circumference of the wheel.
We make sure that the linoleum does not twist, and lightly, up to 1 atmosphere, inflate the tire and check if everything is in order with the wheel. After testing, we raise the pressure to three atmospheres so that the linoleum quickly takes the shape of a tire in the transverse direction.
Then we release the pressure, once again make sure that everything is in order with the wheel and finally inflate the wheel to a working pressure of 2 atmospheres. We put the wheel in place and you can hit the road without fear of puncturing the tube on some sharp little thing.
