Cycle Repairing and Adjusting
With a Chapter on building a Bicycle from a Set of Parts

TYRE COVER REPAIRING 53 a file or rasp. The tyre is now ready to receive its first coat of solution. Apply the solution with a small brush, with which it can be rubbed into the cover better than with the fingers. While the solution is drying or getting tacky, clean the band and cover it with solution in the same way, taking special care that the solution is well applied round the edges of the band. By this time the cover should be ready for its second coat of solution. This should be rubbed on a little lighter, so as not to disturb the first coat. Give the band another coat, and allow this to remain for about an hour to get dry. The band will now be ready to fix on the cover. Two pencil marks round the cover will form a guide when fixing on the band, if a guide is neces- sary. Roll up the band, apply the end of it to the cover, and unroll the band about 3 in. or 4 in. at a time on to the tyre. If the band is too long, cut off the remainder, so that it makes a neat joint. Press down the band from the centre and work to the edges to remove all air bubbles.