How can I repair a flat wheel tire?

Any cyclist at some point in their travels gets a flat tire. Although certainly an inconvenience, the flat wheel tire may not be the end of your ride or the main frustration of your day. Repair of the flat wheel tire can be very easy if it is done correctly and with the right tools.

But before you do something, you will have to buy some tire levers from the local wheels shop. These levers allow you to turn the tire away from the edge, because it's actually your wheels that are flat, not a tire. Do not use screwdriver for this repair! The screwdriver can insert a nickname into the rim that causes future apartments, or can tear the tire and tube when installing a tire.

Once you buy the tire lever, put them aside and determine how to remove the wheel from the wheel. There are two common ways to attach the bike to your bike: either two screws - usually require a fifteen millimeter key - or "qu" lever ick -exhalation "that simply requires, aYou would turn the lever and turn until the wheel relaxed. Find out which system your bike uses and remove the bike from the frame.

After you have removed the wheel from the wheel, it is time to change the flat wheel tire by removing the old, punctured tube on the bike. This is where your tire levers come into play. Tire levers usually come in two or three sets and look similar to the plastic blades of the screwdriver. One end of the lever is curved somewhat like a spoon and the other end has a hook. Take the first lever and work out a spoon between the tire bead - the hard part of the tire that fits closest to the edge - and the rim itself. Then push down the lever. This pulls the bead of the tire from the edge.

At this point, try pulling the lever in both directions around the edge to separate the tire from the edge. Some tires are easy to appear, but others may be stubborn. If your tire is toughHead, stick out, which is first chased back and use the end of the hook lever to connect it to the rays. Then take another tire lever and repeat the process of about five to six inches from the first lever. This should pull the tire away from the edge.

Once you have one side of the tire towed from the edge, note the position of the tube inside the tire. This will help you find out what caused the flat wheel tire - if it is a stranger caused by a foreign object, monitoring the location of the tube will help you find an object and allow you to pull it out of the tire if it is stored in. Pull the tube. Gently lower your hand around the interior of the tire to clean the obvious residues. Beware of any sharp objects that may be inside!

Once you locate the flat wheel source, remove it if it is an object and pull out a new tube. The desert tube just to form, two to four pumps with a pump on the bike and the tube inserted into the tireBy placing the tube stem over the hole first at the edge and then the rest of the tube at the rest of the edge. Once the tube is inside the tire, use your fingers to reset the tire bead inside the edge. For harder tires, use the tire lever to work on the bead, but be careful not to cut the tube with the lever, as this can cause another flat wheel tire.

Once the tire is re -seated, inflate the tube on the recommended pressure written on the side wall of the tire and replace the wheel into the frame. You have now completed a flat wheel tire change.