Forget about applying glue and waiting until its tacky before applying a patch, grating chalk over it etc. - just peel off a patch and stick it over the hole.

For best results apply a strip of selotape over the hole and then remove it to clean any debris from the surface of the inner tube before sticking the punture repair patch on.

These self adhesive puncture repair patches are ideal for the low pressure tyres on your pushchair and for a busy parent with better things to do.

Easy Puncture Repair Kits can be mailed to you for £1 p&p.

For other puncture protection products see also:

• Flat-Away Kevlar Tape

• Sureride Anti-PunctureTape

• Thorn Resistant Inner Tubes

Puncture Repair Guide

• mark the position of the valve on the tyre

• remove the tyre on one side of the wheel using the tyre levers. If you hold the wheel like an artist holds a paint palette with your thumb through the wheel by the valve then you can hold the first tyre lever down while applying the second one.

• remove the inner tube, inflate it and emerse in water, bubbles will reveal where the hole is mark the location with the crayon

• remove the tyre completely from the wheel and put the valve over the mark on the tyre to help find and remove the cause of the puncture (failure to do this will result in repeat punctures)

• check the inside of the tyre for dirt, grit or thorns etc.

2a.  Repair with Red Devil Self Adhesive Patches

• dry the inner tube

• For best results apply a strip of selotape over the hole and then remove it to clean any debris from the surface of the inner tube before sticking the punture repair patch on.

• peel off a self adhesive patch an apply over the hole, press down firmly

• wait five minutes before inflating

2b.  Repair the old fashioned way

• dry the inner tube and roughen the area with the sand paper

• apply adhesive sparingly and allow to become touch dry

• remove protective foil from a patch and press firmly onto the adhesive starting in the centre and working out to the edges

• carefully peel off backing paper

• grate some chalk over the area to prevent any excess adhesive causing the inner tube sticking to the tyre

3. Re-fitting the tube

• fit one side of the tyre back onto the wheel, preferably the outside of the wheel so that you are fitting the inside of the wheel last and any marks caused by tyre levers are concealed

• fit the valve into the wheel

• feed the inner tube evenly around the wheel without kinking it

• inflate the inner tube just enough for it to take up a tubular shape (it is necessary to do this for the tyre to fit well and in particular for the valve to fit behind the tyre wall rather than being pinched by it)

• refit the tyre starting at the valve. Take care not to damage the inner tube if using tyre levers but you can do it with your hands – if you have strong hands

• centralise the wheel inside the tyre and inflate to approximately 10 to 14 lbs pressure.   Tyres can be inflated with most standard bicycle pumps, we recommend using a foot pump with a gauge as the adaptor end is easier to fit onto a small wheel.

If you over inflate the tyres then the ride is harder and above 20lbs you run the risk of distorting the wheel.

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