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Originally Posted by shu...
If I get a flat, I'll replace the tube and then patch the bad one if possible sometime later. It's a skill worth practicing at home before you travel, I think.
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Good advice, but practice at home first if you've not done it before is the important bit. The theory is simple enough - remove punctured tube and replace with new one but as the saying goes "there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip". You really don't want to be doing this for the first time at the side of the road and finding you've got the wrong sort of tyre levers or you can't break the bead on the tyre.
Regarding foam (or any other) puncture fixer - there's loads of posts here on whether they're any good. Some people swear by them but on balance probably more people swear at them. I'm in the later camp. I've used a few (various types) over the years and never had a successful result, but that's probably just me. I had a puncture a couple of weeks ago where the foam in a can stuff would probably have worked but I didn't have any. C'est la vie.
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