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I understand your annoyance, but these days I carry a can of spray-in gloop for punctures.

• mauvehaus 7y ago
  Your local tire shop will not be delighted about this. I'm told the spray in gloop gets everywhere and makes changing the tire (removing it from the rim and installing a new one) hell for the techs.
  • Angostura 7y ago
    My local tyre shop is used to it because sadly (in the UK) the majprity of fmily cars are sold without a spare wheel.
• dbcurtis 7y ago
  That can work for punctures. The back-country that I go to regularly has granite rocks that can sometimes have a sharp edge. The particular tire I was changing was a 4-steel-ply contractor-grade truck tire, two weeks old, that somehow got cross-wise of a piece of split granite that put a 3 inch gash in it. Goop will not do it in that case. I am still amazed at the damage that rock did. But hey, that's life in the mountains.