Most patched inner tube?

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I happened to get a flat in my generic Dutch city bike yesterday so I set to fixing it and realised I know have 5 patches in the one inner tube. This happens to be a personal record.

Anyone do better or does everyone give up and replace their tubes more quickly?

It’s my only bike with inner tubes these days although my family’s bikes all still use them. I think most wheels in the family have at least one patch, as do quite a few of my spares.

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take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

Tubeless is awesome.

I recently retired a worn-out maxxis DHR and it was absolutely littered with cuts, nicks, thorns and other damage which I’m pretty sure would have punctured an inner tube if I had one.

My gravel bike and mtb run tubeless and I’m sure it’s saved me a whole Loews of grief over the years. My town bike isn’t though and it collects punctures like crazy.