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The looming world-war has made me somewhat gung-ho and I decided to top up my tubeless tyre sealant myself to try and fix a small puncture - seemingly too small for a plug. I am not a natural with tools and stuff - being a poet.

In the past I'd take a puncture-that-wouldn't-fix to the bike shop and get talked into buying a new tyre on economic grounds i.e. cost of new sealant and labour and hole might not fix = safer to buy new tyre.

This time I thought I'd try the cheaper approach of a sealant top-up as the hole seemed very small. So watched some relevant videos, bought the necessary tool and got some sealant.

I couldn't re-inflate the f..king tyre! After half an hour of taking the valve out again, re-inserting it x 5, squeezing the tyre in to capture the air...nothing worked. I thought I must have f..ked up the valve. And a lot of the fluid I'd squeezed in escaped and lay in a puddle on the ground.

Anyway...penny finally dropped ... that little threaded washer at the seat of the valve stem wasn't screwed in tightly enough and air was escaping via the bottom of the valve stem.

The trye is now pumped up and I can't see any bubbles or feel any air escaping at the puncture site so...may have fixed it.

Just had to get that offa my chest.