Changing a rear tyre on an ebike.

[BLACKPANTHER]

Today, my Marathon plus tour finally arrived. I guess R.Mail still have a massive back log of parcel if they're delivering on Sunday!!

Anyway, it took me about 30 minutes, and I'm sure I could do it in 1/2 the time now I know how to do it. I also put a slime tube in, and I'm glad I did.
I think it would be nigh on impossible to swap a tube at the roadside. I had the bike upside down, balanced on 3 patio chairs. I had to dig out my old imperial socket set for the 7/16 axle nut, and side cutters for the tie wrapped cable. I don't carry these things in my tool kit (especially the chairs).
Anyway, the tyres are on. As I fitted a wider 2.00 inch on the rear I also had to faff around raising the mudguard, but it rides really nicely. If I ever do get a rear puncture, at least now I'll know not to try and fix it, I'll just call the Missus for recovery!

Has anyone ever fixed a puncture on their rear wheel at the roadside? I suppose technically you could just leave the wheel in situ and pull the tube out of the tyre and hope to find the puncture??

 

[trickletreat]

Luckily no, but have fitted marathon plus atb's, and replaced all the cable ties with velcro

 

[Phil the drill]

Yep.
Had 3 punctures in the space of less than 4 miles on my Wisper a couple of years ago. Fixed them with the wheel in situ, as you mentioned. Wasn't a whole heap of fun though..
Phil

 

[BLACKPANTHER]

Yep.
Had 3 punctures in the space of less than 4 miles on my Wisper a couple of years ago. Fixed them with the wheel in situ, as you mentioned. Wasn't a whole heap of fun though..
Phil

3 in 4 miles???? Did you have tyres on, or were you just riding on the inner tubes?

I've done almost 4,000 puncture free miles since I fitted Schwalbe Marathon plus' on my Dawes., so I swaer by them. That's almost all on the road though (and away from the gutter). It's also on a normal bike, but I'm hoping that even with the extra weight over the rear on the Aurora I'll not get any punctures.

 

[jerrysimon]

Seems strange putting a slime tube in "as well" as the Marathon Plus

I guess its belt and braces, but I have found the Plus's with an ordinary tube more than adequate.

Regards

Jerry

 

[BLACKPANTHER]

Seems strange putting a slime tube in "as well" as the Marathon Plus

I guess its belt and braces, but I have found the Plus's with an ordinary tube more than adequate.

Regards

Jerry

Marathon plus's are great, but they're only puncture resistant, not puncture proof. They don't add too much weight and I really really really wouldn't want to fix a puncture on the rear of the Aurora. Sods law says I'd get one in the worst possible place (a 1/4 of my commute is on unlit country roads). My front tyre has a normal front tube, so I carry the excellent Slime Skabs for easy repairs. Same set up on my normal bike.

 

[Old Timer]

I carry one of those split inner tubes ( just a long tube that butts up together at the end) not had to use it yet but you never know. I also run Tours on the Aurora and I challenge anyone to be riding over worse road conditions than I have to encounter. All the lanes are lined with hawthorn and blackthorn and are cut every year, there is flint everywhere in North Norfolk and the roads are covered in crud from the tractors bringing in the the sugar beet

 

[jbond]

Until this bike, I would have never tried to fix punctures without removing the wheel. But after doing it on another bike and swapping tyres on the Aurora, it's really not that hard. The new sticky glueless patches make it easier as well.

To change the rear tyre on the Aurora, I only had to cut one tiewrap. That gave enough slack on the motor cable to lift the wheel the couple of inches needed to get the tyre and tube through the gap on the disk side.

Puzzled why you needed chairs and stuff to balance the bike. Surely you just turn it upside down and balance it on the seat and handlebars?

 

[stevebills]

3 in 4 miles???? Did you have tyres on, or were you just riding on the inner tubes?

He was riding on broken beer bottles

I always carry 2 chairs it saves bending down while doind punture

 

[Mussels]

Has anyone ever fixed a puncture on their rear wheel at the roadside? I suppose technically you could just leave the wheel in situ and pull the tube out of the tyre and hope to find the puncture??

I've lost count of the number of punctures I've repaired at the roadside, it's usually an easy 10 minute fix. Pull of the bit of tyre where the hole is, patch it and stick it all back.
I've only ever had to swap an inner tube twice, the first time because the rim tape was poor (puncture from the inside) and the second time because I had slime in the tyre and it made the tube irrepairable. I'd recommend carrying a spare tube anyway but if you have slime inner tubes definately so!