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I bought some Marathon Plus tyres once.

http://www.portsmouthctc.org.uk/fitting-a-marathon-plus-tyre

Excellent video. I had trouble 10 years ago with my first ones but had bought some special levers under advice. I evolved most of the technique in the video but never took it to the limit of the demonstrator and completed it without levers altogether. His expert tip is to keep moving the second bead down into the well over and over again.

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It is my view that nothing

It is my view that nothing resists the British thorn. I have not even tried filling the tube with horrendous gloop because I don’t believe it’s going to work. I could be wrong, so I await comments from people who have actually used the stuff, and find that it’s still possible stick a standard tube repair patch even with the gloop in place. Similarly, users of tubeless tyres (I have tubeless rims and tyres, but haven’t used them tubeless) are encouraged to report their experiences.

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I can’t remember the

I can’t remember the reference, but there was a believable study done on the A6 somewhere near Preston which found the same thing.

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I have been doing this for

I have been doing this for many years: just cut out a suitable piece from an old defunct tyre, which doesn’t have to be very large, cut out any wire or kevlar from the bead, and glue or place it at the appropriate spot. Get that bit back on the rim first and the uninflated tube is usually enough to hold the patch in place while you get the rest of the tyre back on. Another useful material, no longer easily obtainable, is X-ray film. This can take a small fold which hooks over the tyre bead, and it’s so thin it doesn’t affect tyre seating at all and so strong that it will protect the tube for months and years. It can only be about 1″ around the circumference, though, because it won’t comply with the curvature and develops a kink which erodes the tube. I carry one of both of these in my repair kit.

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I am surprised at how un

I am surprised at how un-militant I am in positioning, and I am invariably cycling alone. I am usually about 1 metre from the kerb- I have to force myself to move R when traversing the 2 local danger spots for psycho-overtaking- blind humped bridges with well-deserved unbroken white lines which drivers ignore with impunity. They overtake right up to the crest of the bridge with no thought in their tiny minds, already disabled by the delusion that they are god-like titans of the road, that they are approaching drivers like themselves coming the other way at a relative speed of 60+ (often a lot +)- I know that they would immediately move hard L into me to avoid colliding with that other driver, so I want to have somewhere to go except straight over the bridge parapet- although I doubt I would be able to react quickly enough. I know that the F***h would simply agree with the driver that he had to avoid the collision with the other car and so it was necessary to sacrifice the cyclist.

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They don’t bother with
They don’t bother with ‘defences’ in Lancashire- the police just don’t respond to online incident reports. There is no defence to this incident- driver is on the R side of vehicle almost completely across double unbroken white lines on the R side of the road just before a RH bend on a busy road

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Looks like an interesting

Looks like an interesting device, but I suspect only for slow travel on immaculate roads when you look at the tiny wheels. When the roads are like cart tracks, and the drivers are crazed cyclist haters like they are here, I think a Bob Yak with a high flag on the back and a plastic box may have the edge

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In Lancashire you do at least

In Lancashire you do at least know what they’re going to do about offences as soon as you send in the report- nothing at all.

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