BLOWING TYRE

Today is not my day. When I was on my way to Lawang with Bayu, my motorcycle tyre blew. It was a very subtle puncture on it (on the inner tube, which covered by tyre, so the process of repairing will be going at the inner tube). Thankfully, we found ‘tyre repairing service’* immediately (but we should suspect him of strewing sharp things purposely that punctured my tyre). Anyway, we inevitably had to took my motorcycle to him.

The process of reparing the tyre goes like this. The first thing he should do is identifying the puncture, by inflating the inner tube again, then immerse it under water. When the bubbles come up, bingo, he finds the puncture.

Secondly, he marked that puncture by rubbing it with something which has a hard surface on it so as the puncture area has a different colour after he scraped it.
Finally, he put a rubber-made thing to cover the puncture and stick it with glue, and heating it up. It takes around 20 minutes to do all the steps.

It was my second ‘blowing tyre accident’ in this week, not to mention the previous nearly uncountable blowing tyre accident that I’ve got.

* (I don’t know the precise term in English, because I don’t have any idea which country still employs this method to stop blowing tyre, at least Cambodia does! I saw from a book given by Nira entitled “Women at Work”, page 44, published by Khmer Youth Association)