Temporary puncture repair

Motorcycling
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Mentioned elsewhere but this deserves its own thread.

On our way to The Burnham Bends Gixerninja picks up a screw in her rear tyre. Ben Sir Amos carries out the time honoured test by smearing a finger of bodily fluids across the screw shank and confirms escaping air.

Improvise
Although she made it to the nearest garage with a tyre pump and probably some of the more conventional temporary repair products such as Holts Tyre Weld etc. She was having none of it. A quick scrummage in her make up pouch and she’s armed and dangerous with a tube of nail glue.

Adapt
Not satisfied with a simple dollop of nail glue over the screw shank a layer of paper towel is applied with further dollops of nail glue.

Overcome
The jobs a gooden in less than 5 minutes, temporary tyre repair effected and we’re on our way. It held too all the way to Southend and back home to West London. That has to be well over 100 miles and there was none of that holding back on the horses either.

Girly mechanics ruled the day :wink:

Disclaimer: Blah blah blah on your own head be it.

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That’s almost impressive enough to be arousing.

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Looks like I’ll be raiding the wife’s makeup draw.

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You don’t have to make excuses to us as why you’re doing that :wink:

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Make a change from the underwear draw, oops, secrets out, don’t tell anyone.

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Begs the question would superglue work also, then you can sniff it while you fix it :w00t:

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I thought it was just me

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Described to me as a super super glue.

I’d guess along with the varnish remover stuff its not a bad snort either just not while on duty ;

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I did look into this earlier - it seems the ingredients of nail glue are identical to superglue. I just tried snorting it - I’ve now got a rolled up £10 note stuck to a mirror. Where did I go wrong?

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lol.

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That’s why I always wear ladies’ stockings so I can fix the fan belt if it goes while I’m out on a ride.

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You three (Rusty, Art & Ben) are setting a bad example, we do not want the 125ers to aspire to become backpack sniffers:angry:

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Just say no :wink:

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Superglue does work used it on mine when I had a sharp stone go through the tyre made it from enfield to essential rubber and it had only dropped 2 psi in that time

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Who said anything about backpacks ?

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Keep up Rusty. Gixerninja travels light and keeps all her kit including the make up pouch that contains the much spoke of nail glue in her sisters backpack. I believe the idea is to snort the nail glue vapour whilst it is contained within the backpack pretty much like you would with super glue in a crisp packet although the backpack is more robust. However, in reality I wouldn’t know about such matters.

Slan - If you find people following you around with their heads stuck in your backpack you’ll know what’s going on and I apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.