, before it gave out Ouch! This issue has real relevance for me as of late. On the A2 autobahn halfway between Berlin and Magdeburg (heading west) my rear tube (an old one by the looks of it - on there since i've had the bike)developed a tear which left me stuck by the autobahn for some 3 hours whilst i waited for Adac to attend to me    . I must add i had the tube out twice (how hard is it trying to isolate a puncture being buffered around by all the passing trucks with the attendant noise on a fenced-in section of the road - answer Very) but the patches i applied just couldn't hold the air in. So the Adac chappy stuck some foam in which got me going to the outskirts of Magdeburg (40km'ish on the back roads before it gave out again) where i eventually located a new tube. Annoying thing is that i didn't take a spare tube as it was a pure road-trip and a straightforward puncture shouldn't have been a problem... Sod's Law and all that!
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