Exploding tire, hidden pothole

Tarckives Bikes
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How do you fix a flat when its raining cats and dogs? I’m guessing the vulcanizing glue dosen’t do so well when its wet.

Reason im asking is because i got a pinch flat on my commute to work by hitting a pothole. It was raining so the hole was covered by water thats why i dident see it.
There was a bus shelter 15 yards away, so i went there to fix the flat out of the rain. While i was applying the glue it started raining biblical style witch got me thinking about what would i do if i dident have any cover from the rain.

I tought it would be a good thing to know since its been raining about 75% of the time here for the last 2 months.

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I’m actually pretty sure you couldn’t.
You’d have to just replace the tube.

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Just carry spare tubes and you’re good to go.

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fix the tube at home

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Seriously, fixing a tube on the road is a bad idea. Carry a spare tube, fix the broken one at home. End of story.

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Who rides in the rain?

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I usualy carry a spare tube, but i dont’t carry one for this bike.
The rear is a 27" 1-1/4 an the front is a 700c x 23. I havent found a tube that goes both sizes (haven’t really looked for one do).

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anyways a spare tube dosent always work, 2 flats in one trip does happens, happend to me once. I was montain biking and got a flat on the way up (piece of metal) and then got a flat on the ride home (piece of glass). I had a tube for the first one but had to patch the second.
true story

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Ok so I’m not sure if this is the correct thing to do or not… but I have used 700c tubes in 27" wheels and vise versa. It was what I had laying around and went with it. Never had any problems.

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It’s usually just an issue of the valve hole. There are little adapters you can get for the rim, and then you can just use Presta tubes.