I am Ron Sawicki, I am going to be your host man, I am also a professional bike mechanic. I want to give tips on how to fix a flat tire and the first thing you need to do is prepare before you even got and get the flat tire. So down here if you look in my bag I got a tire lever which is definitely one of the most important, replacement tube and a patch kit, those are essential just in case you replace a tire and your tube get another flat and then I carry a sew cartridge which is just canned there so that I can pump it out really quick, you can do that or you can actually use a pump or bring a pump along with you. It just takes a little bit more muscle power.
If you get a flat in the rear the first thing you want to do is switch your gears down to your smallest cad, like that. In that way you got the whole derail loosened in its relax position and then pop it out. If there is still any air left in it, go ahead and let that out. Go around and then just unseal the tire and that is going to let it come out a lot easier foot back and stick your tire iron inside and just pull away from the rim and go both directions around find out where your stunt is right here, pull it out, take your tube out.
The first thing I want to do is to find out if there is any kind of thorns or jagged or sharp object in the tire. This is automated blocks also, sometimes when you are changing a tire you get rocks in there because you are all excited during a race or something like that, you do not want to do that, you want to go slow. So you want to take your hand and if you got a glove, that will work with it. It is better to do with your bare hand, just go slow so you do not cut your finger s on something sharp and just feel around the whole tire and get your replacement tube. One of the tricks you want to do if you got your pump with you, you can pump it up or you can just take it and put it in to your mouth, loosen this and blow some air in it. That is going to cause you to not having a pinch flat when you seal it and blow it up, so you stick that in there, put it all away around in your tire.
First thing, put his, the bead right by your stem inside or you have to push your stem up a little and then bead it around and sometime at this point you may have to it, I do not have to use a tire iron and you can see I got a tube sticking out and just kind of push that in or you can flick it like I did. Now the main thing is you want to, you do not want any of that tube sticking out passed like that and then just seal it again. Come back to your stem and now you can do one of two things, this actually happens to be a pump and a Co2 cartridge all in one, so if I use my Co2 I can discard it or I can pump it up by hand. I am going to do it the easy way.
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