Personally I couldn’t be arsed for one ride, if you’ve replacements coming. I’d glue a patch inside, boot it with a bit of old tyre and risk it for one ride, potentially running lower pressure than normal. I’m lazy.
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Have you freshly oiled that chain as well…or did you dip in in a bucket of oil? 
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I’d do the same. Although if it lasted one ride, I’d call it good and leave it on.
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Yeah same. I’ve been riding around on my commuter with this for last week or so. If it was winter or wet I’d have changed it
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Wow you are a braver man than me (admittedly a low bar)
Couldn’t that go BOOM at any moment?
I rode around the F1 track on the heavy tyre, all was fine, although I can’t hold the P2 aero position for much longer than an hour any more it seems. Wheels all switched back for morning commute in just under 8 hours time, night all
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Yeah I guess so!
It’s just the internal material of the tyre, can’t actually see any inner tube poking out - but yes, I need to sort it!
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Take my money 
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What happens when one tyre gets a @bbt67 style shark bite, but the other is still good, and you can’t find the original colour any more? 
That would be a pity. A risk I may be willing to take.
Anywhos, just ordered a pair of the yellow X11’s in 45mm. Probably won’t mount them until Spring as there’s lots of life in the Tufo Thunderos I’m currently running. What a tart.
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I’m to tight to order a pair. £££££££££s these days.
Just put a polymer note inside, keeping using the old one. Use a £50 probably cheaper?
I did originally click on the ride it but then saw I was the only one and felt irresponsible so removed that vote.
Worried about the colour match, just spray both to the colour of your choice.
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I’m guessing it probably would have been fine, but there would have been this nagging doubt…
No idea how long the hole had been there for, I don’t routinely check, just noticed a black bubble poking out that seemed to be a little side wall inner tube balloon.
Back when we all ran 23mm tyres at 120psi there were many more fun blow outs when a little cut in the tyre would expose a little balloon of tube.
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Have I just been an idiot?
Mrs FT bought a Trek Emondo road bike second hand out in Doha. Nice light bike, but the brakes and shifters were configured so the left hand controlled the front brake and rear derailleur and the right hand controlled the rear brake and front derailleur.
At least one of the cables was also too short and snagged when you turned the bars more than about 30 degrees.
So I just bit the bullet and replaced all of the cables, switching the sides. Pig of a job because of the internal routing.
Now I’m wondering if I have been an idiot and wired up an 11 speed shifter to a 2 chainring derailleur and vice versa? Or does it not work like that?
It’s normal to have the brakes on opposite levers but have never heard of the shifting being different, would mean making completely different leveres. Are you sure the left leaver operated the rear mech before?
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For sure you can’t just switch the cables on the mechs.
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You know what, I’m confused.
I could have sworn that the left shifter was controling the rear gears.
Just been back to check, it’s the right side now, and seems to work. But maybe it was the right side all along.
In which case I basically just spent the afternoon replacing like with like 
But at least the handlebars turn now, and 2 cables were damaged. And the brakes were definitely switched . So it needed doing.
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Are you sure you weren’t on the fossies?
Assuming the shifter is Shimano it’s a very different shifting mechanism for the rear with 11 indexes to the front so reversing would be impossible unless you somehow took out all the insides! Di2 is another matter as I think you can swap if you are mental.
As Doka says, I think most other countries have the brakes the opposite way, wonder if it is to do with us driving on the left 
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New bike… Let’s not even talk about how long it took to swap tyres 
Next problem… I use the stem bolts to put my light mount on. I’ve got a couple of options (one from moon and a lifeline one).
Neither are fitting as the stem bolt holes on the bike are wider than both the mount holes. So the bolts are going
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Is there some non standard stem width? Never had issue before 
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I actually changed the stem on my TT bike last night, are you talking about the front plate bolts as they’re right next to each other on this one, albeit it’s quite old.