Fix-a-flat

Equipment: Pump, two tire irons, and spare tube.

• Remove wheel from the frame.  If it is the rear wheel shift to the smallest chainring to reduce tension.

• Make sure all the air is out od the tire.

• Use the tire irons to lift one side of the tire out of the rim.  Pry tire over over the wheel rim.  Keep that first tire iron in place.  Insert the second tire iron inside the opening.  Run the iron slowly along the rim gradually lifting the bead until the entire one side is free, resting over the rim.

• go to the tube.  Poke the valve stem through until the stem is free.  Carefully remove the tube from inside the tire.  Make sure the tire stays on the rim, one side inside the rim and one side completely off of the tire.

• Once the tube is removed, patch it, or start with a newe tube.

• Inspect the inside of the rim for thorns, sticks, pebbles, anything that maight cause a puncture.

• Inflate the new tube about sixty percent full, to give it shape.

• Insert the valve stem through the hole in the rim. Carefully insert the tube between the rim and the tire until it is completely around the rim.

• Now insert the tire bead back inside the rim.  Start on the side opposite the valve and work the bead inside the rim.  Be careful not to pinch the tube.  The last section may be difficult to get inside the rim, just knead the tire with a little more force.  Inspect the tire to be sure the tube in completely inside the tire and above the bead.

• Inflate to proper tire pressure.

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