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Two options:
1 - ride road bike 7 miles home in the rain with a tyre with a 1cm gash in the sidewall patched up with Evans' appalling adhesive patches and about 50psi in so it doesn't burst (30-40 mins)
2 - get the horrible horrible trains then the bus home (1 hour) and leave the bike at work knowing that I'll have to pick it up at some point over the weekend
You decide.
I would go for 1, but bolster the tyre boot with a bit of plastic or cardboard judiciously glued on the inside of the boot to give even more strength to it. It's not that far!
it's not a tyre boot it's a glueless patch for tubes - I could slip a bit of plastic in there though, that might help.
Stick a boot in it.
1.
Though it is chucking it down here in Sheffield and I am thinking of the train myself...
Start riding; if it does fail, pretend it's a cross race and run the rest.
Stick a boot in it.
don't have one and the LBS* over the road don't sell them (!!!!!)
*I'm really hating Evans right now
crisp bag etc works fine.
Does the lbs across the road not sell tyres?
If the tyre's a write-off anyway, just get them to price match the best online price for a replacement tyre...
They charge £40 for the tyre I want which I can get for £25.
I also need to get my wife a Valentines gift so am time poor.
plastic from a milk bottle makes a great tyre boot.
just chop a square to the right sort of size.
1 or Taxi...
I went for 1. Using a Meningitis Trust car sticker as a boot. Rode home stood up to reduce the weight on the back wheel. Fortune favours the brave and there was not only free choclate in Hotel Chocolat but a monster tail wind (with rain) all the way home!