C: You explained how it works with a car. But how about when your bike has a flat tire?
A: [Towards M] With the lever.
A: Um, yes.
A: [Towards M] But I never have problems with my bike.
A: [Towards M] I’ve never had a flat tire.
A: When the tires are low on air, I go to the gas station and use their pumps to inflate my tires.
A: Or, for example, the valve may be too big for a normal air pump, then that doesn’t get you ver far.
A: Then I have to go to the gas station and use their pump to inflate the tire, and that’s it.
B: But, you/
A: That happens sometimes, but having a completely flat and broken tire?
A: I can’t do that, I’d have to throw it in the trash.
A: I’d have to get a new tire and put it on.
A: But that doesn’t really happen.
C: A completely new tire?
A: Yes, if I feel like it.
A: I don’t like to spend hours fiddling around with bits and pieces.
A: With these things, I’d rather buy a new one, and then I put in a new tire and I’m done with it.
B: But, you, I/
C: But how do you mount the new tire?
A: [Towards M] Um, no, I don’t patch up a flat or punctured tire.
A: No, I dump the tire.
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A: And I put a new tire on the bike, a green one.
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C: A completely new wheel with spokes?
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A: [Towards M] Yes, that too.
A: Yes, if it’s new and modern?
A: Then I’ll put on a whole new wheel, why not?
A: Well.
B: You/
B: But if you’re stuck somewhere in a village, for example?
B: Your bike breaks down and all the shops are closed.
B: What do you do, you need the bike to continue your trip.
B: How would you repair it?
B: You could/
B: So for example, you’re in a village.
B: If something happened to you there, you couldn’t just go and buy something because everything is closed.
B: What do you do?
B: You’ve got plans, you want to meet somebody somewhere.
B: You look at it and you think, oh, that’s easy to repair.
B: You have to tinker with it, screw a bit here and there, and so on.
B: What exactly does that look like?
B: You take a look at it and then, what do you to, stuck somewhere in a village?
B: How would that work, what would that look like?
A: [Towards M] But you could also take along something for the bike just to be safe, or you could place it under the seat.
A: I can’t remember what it’s called right now.
A: You always carry it along just to be safe, in case your bike breaks down or has a flat tire.
A: In case of emergency you can use the air pump to inflate the tire.
A: But you don’t pump in air, but some kind of glue which coats the inside of the inner tube and seals it.
A: Once that hardens you can continue riding reasonably well.
A: Once you’re back home you can repair it properly.
A: You can also do it like that.
C: But what would that repair look like?
A: [Towards M] Yes, in order to repair the tire you need to/
A: I could show you a lot better with a real bike.
A: If I’m just thinking about it I have no clue how to do it anymore.
A: Um, first, you need to loosen the axle nuts, which are located at the end of the bike fork.
A: First, you loosen and take off the axle nut on one side, then on the other side.
A: I take the wheel down/
A: You pull the wheel downwards out of the fork.
A: Of course it’s easier if you first turn the bike upside down.
A: That’s easier, I didn’t think of that, well.
A: So flip it over first.
A: Then you loosen the nuts on each side and put them aside.
A: Then you lift the wheel off the bike.
A: Then you have to pry the tire off the rim bit by bit.
A: But first you have to take the fixing ring off the valve, then you can take down the whole tire from the rim.
A: After that, you can pull it off completely.
A: Then you take the new inner tube and push the valve through the opening in the rim.
A: You put the inner tube back onto the rim.
A: Then, um, the tire needs to fill with air.
A: Or you use the air pump to inflate it.
A: Then you push the tire back onto the rim and adjust it.
A: You put the wheel back on and fasten the nuts, I guess.
A: I think that’s how it works but I haven’t done it myself yet.
A: I’ve seen it though, yes.
A: But I haven’t done it myself.
A: But I think that’s roughly how you can imagine it.