1. Turn bike upside down.
2. Admire pool of liquid growing from water bottles.
3. Remove bottles.
4. Shred latex gloves on sweaty hands.
5. Remove wheel.
6. Fail to notice tyre position relative to valve.
7. Remove tyre and tube.
8. Lose valve cap and retaining nut in grass.
9. Search tyre for cause of puncture but ignore split in sidewall.
10. Neatly roll punctured tube.
11. Unroll recently roll tube.
12. Realise mistake and re-roll punctured tube.
13. Repeat 11-12 until common sense sets in.
14. Replace tyre and fit (hopefully) the unpunctured spare tube.
15. Refit wheel ensuring that chain is caught under wheel.
16. Refit wheel properly.
17. When inflating tube notice that valve stem is stupidly short.
18. Deduce that tube has been fitted with retaining nut inside rather than outside the rim.
19. Finally fit tube and inflate.
20. Several hours later notice odd bulge on tyre. Realise bulge is in fact inner tube poking through tyre.
21. Buy new tyre.
22. Repeat above.
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