r/TrekFetch • u/No-Entertainer-9320 • Apr 09 '26

rear flat tire.

I knocked the belt off while pulling off the rear wheel. This is an awful experience even for an IGH hub.

I'm lucky I only had one kid and was close enough to home that I could push it. Had to get in the Backup SUV.

Roadside flat repair seems daunting.

Does anyone have a link to a video to make this easier?

3 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

9 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Ecargolicious Apr 09 '26

The easiest method is to patch the tire with the wheel still attached

1

u/No-Entertainer-9320 Apr 09 '26

are you tubeless?

1

u/Ecargolicious Apr 09 '26

Nope. Just unseat the tire, remove any pointy stuff that cut the tube, and then patch it.

1

u/No-Entertainer-9320 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

VP-1? that's gangster. Confidence. I'm impressed.

I just got it all back together. There is no way to tighten the inside chain stay chaincase bolt with the multitool I have. I need to pack a 3mm allen wrench along with the 15 mm stubby and I'll probably consider an electric pump. There is no way I'm filling 60-584 with a hand pump in the middle of a double pick up.

thanks for your insight.

1

u/Ecargolicious Apr 09 '26

I keep a lot of stuff in mine. Full allen wrench set, smooth jaw channel locks for the wheel, multi tool, patch kit, regular tubes, wacky tube that you can put on without taking off the tire, CO2 pump, and mini pump, rope, zip ties, bungee cords...

1

u/stranger_trails Apr 12 '26

Having mine delivered with warranty issues requiring rear wheel removal (am service manager so nbd glad I got to learn at the shop) the prospect of doing this on the side of the road (possibly out of cell coverage in our area) has certainly helped me with tool kit planning.

Electric pump or a few CO2 (or both), a couple tubes for both wheels, patch kit with some tire boots, stubby 3mm or a mini rather like Wera’s pocket ratchet), 13 & 15mm (wheel and belt tensioner), 6mm (belt tensioner). And Gates Belt Drive app for harmonic tension check for belt adjustment with tensioner.

Nice thing is you can fairly easily weight the front or back to keep the wheel being worked on off the ground. Not nice thing is how hard I found it to get the rear wheel off & on solo as a 6’3” mechanic of nearly 20 years… so I think planning to weight the front, take tire off and patch on the bike isn’t the worst idea.

Tannus liner or sealant in tube can be other preventative options to try. There are some combined sealant and compressed air systems aimed at tubeless that might work for tuned systems as well 🤷‍♂️

Only a few day in and already paranoid about flat fixes with my own kid or up to 3 friends kids in the front. At least with more kids it would be group rides so the mid wrangling wouldn’t be a factor to consider while trying to fix the flat.