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If you plan to repair the inner tube, chalk or mark around the hole area after inflating the tube and locating the puncture hole. Next deflate the tube, place it on a flat, clean surface and roughen the puncture area with some sandpaper. Apply a smooth layer of glue around the hole, just slightly bigger in circumference than the repair patch you will attach to it after a few minutes (once the glue has dried and become tacky). Firmly apply a patch that will substantially cover the hole (it will expand when the tube has been inflated) and make sure there are no air bubbles or folds in the patch before inflating the tube. If you suffer a blow out, the hole will usually be too large to repair, so your only option is replacing the inner tube with a spare one.

Happy that the puncture is repaired, deflate the tube and put one side of the tyre's edge inside the wheel's rim, then push the valve back through the valve hole and work the inner tube back inside the tyre. Inflate the inner tube a little and make sure you do not pinch it under the other edge of the tyre when you lift this back over the rim by hand. The final section may require the use of the tyre levers to help flip the remaining tyre edge back inside the wheel's rim; once again, check the tube isn't pinching here before reinflating it. Finally, screw the nut back onto the valve and return the wheel to the dropouts.

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