I had a puncture yesterday, managed to limp home on the flatish front tyre, it's an Avon AM20
Just checked the tyre it's ok , seems fine can't fined any evidence of being creased or chaffed, sidewall pretty firm all around.
Never thought about it before but it looks like an advantage of the Morad Alloy rim is the tyre stays on when flat, although I went very carefully on the mile home, HA a slow speed tank slapper - imagine.
Now to the point
The cause of the puncture was the small dished washer thing that fits on the tyre over the valve stem, this must have came off when the tyre was fitted, worked its way around the tube and eventually for some reason dug in.
I have had a look at a spare tube and the little washer on it is pretty well stuck to the tube although perhaps if I tried hard enough it might come off.
Now that my confidence in my tyre fitting skills has been called into question, my question is what is the order of the fittings on the valve stem and where do they go
This tube had on the valve stem starting from the tube - 1. the small dished washer, 2. a brass nut, 3. another brass nut.
I had them in the following order (tube) washer, rim, brass nut - the other brass nut I discarded
OK forum tyre Gurus what if anything have I done wrong (apart from letting the little washer fall off when fitting the tube)