MTB Mechanic: How to Patch a Flat Tire

By Lennard Zinn
Published Aug. 3, 2011
Updated Nov. 3, 2011 at 10:43 AM UTC

Everyone needs to know how to patch a flat, especially during the winter. Singletrack.com’s Lennard Zinn shows us how.

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Lennard Zinn

Lennard Zinn, our longtime technical writer, joined VeloNews in 1987. He is also a frame builder, former U.S. national team rider, and author of many bicycle books including Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance and Zinn’s Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists. He holds a bachelor’s in physics from Colorado College. Readers can send brief technical questions to Ask LZ.