5 Km out of town having a flat rear tire simple nail did it but having already fun on the bike the complete valve was ripped out of the tube yes we do have tubes as a standard spare part with us oeps that water is camouflaged very well 4 picture limit see next thread Robert-Jan
Gotta watch those sink holes ... Over here we have caraboa and they must have water to cool off ... So there are caraboa swimming holes all over the place to watch for on each ride ... Do you have rim locks on your bike? I've never ripped a valve stem with one on my bike ... We have vulcanizers (24 hrs service for many) all over the place here and fixing a ripped out stem is easy for these guys to fix ...
I only have a rim lock on my front wheel. you do need them here as the tires are cheap and the valve are easily ripped out on the rear i don't have one but it appears not an issue this particular case is that the nail made it flat and i did find out when it was flat (the in between time I was still giving it) and that would done the damage to the tube yet again a inner tube is $6 so not a bank breaker just inconvenient if you don't have a spare one on you Robert-Jan
I carry tubes on the tours here but normally with the rim locks and the IRC VE-33 \ 35 tires, I have always made it out to a vulcanizer ...Its a soft compound tire but holds up OK on flats to some degree ... Some of my bikes have the HD tubes and most have the slime stuff in there for sealing some holes ... Some of those HD inner tubes are just too heavy for me so I use the intermediate sized ones ... Not sure how much they really help me here as I deal in nails usually and they will go through any tube ... I'd choose the slime over the HD tubes if I had to make a choice ...
