How to fix a puncture

By Alan Dowds

UNLESS you ride a 1960s Italian scooter with a spare wheel bolted onto the front, a puncture on a bike is, on the face of it, a proper ball-ache. Your tyres are the key to your progress on the roads, and with a hole in one, you're going nowhere fast.

But there are answers. Compact puncture repair kits can be stuck under your seat, and, nine times out of ten, will get you back up and running again – at least far enough to get home, or to a garage or bike shop. Here’s our guide to defeating deflations…