You can ride 1,000 uneventful miles only for the puncture fairy to strike with a vengeance.
Nobody knows why, but punctures, like buses, tend to turn up in twos and threes. But however unwelcome an interruption your next puncture will be, you can ensure your roadside pit-stop runs smoothly by carrying the correct tools.
With the weather finally improving and many bikes emerging from winter hibernation, we have five micro saddle bags and puncture repair kits to give away. If you have cycle insurance with us, don’t forget that it includes breakdown cover – if you suffer a mechanical breakdown while our cycling (including punctures), we’ll arrange for you and your bike to be recovered.
Win a DHB micro saddle bag and puncture repair kit
Simply leave us a message at the bottom of the page and we’ll pick winners next week.
Ethical cycle insurance
On the face of it, one cycle insurance policy is much like another, but the devil is the detail. Check your small print for so-called ‘new-for-old’ replacement – many insurers use the term, but if your bicycle is more than a few years old, devalue it severely. This means you are left out of pocket when you come to replace it.
With ETA cycle insurance, however old the bike, if it’s stolen you get enough to buy a new model. Furthermore, every cycle insurance policy you buy from us helps support the work of the ETA Trust, our charity campaigning for a cleaner, safer transport future. Little wonder The Good Shopping Guide has voted us Britain’s most ethical insurance company.
Darren C
Yes please, sometimes when I change from my 30 yr old mountain bike to my road bike I forget to swap tubes in my bag too and when I get a puncture I only have a 26″ tube on hand!
(As the first person to comment, does that mean I’m a winner too?)
Peter Dobbs
A puncture repair kit would be very welcome please,
Mike S
My existing saddle bag and repair kit has been sitting under my saddle for so many years and been exposed to all the elements over that time, that a) it must weigh twice as much as when I bought it new, b) the zip is so caked in crud that it would never open when I needed it, and c) it does doesn’t look as cool as the DHB one on offer. So please, can I have one ??
ADRIAN PRICE
GREAT PRACTICAL PRIZE—–VERY HANDY AND USEFUL
Alex M
It’s like all the crap from the whole winter is littering the roads!
Nick Jones
I’d love one of these kits for my wife’s bike. She is just starting out and would help a lot.
Bettina Becker
Would love to win the repair kit.
Andy Hurrell
The formula for how many bikes are required (n+1) also applies to bags and toolkits. So yes please!
Keith Quinton
Yes please!
Also, a good idea to carry a few spare bits in your car too if you drive – in case you come across a rider having grief at the side of the road 🙂
Andy Scott
Just starting on a bike after years off it, this would be a great help for my daily commute
Carsten Meilandt
My wife literally asked me this morning, what to do if she got a puncture – there’s the answer – YES PLEASE 😉
Deb E
Ooo yes please!
Am a fifty(-ish) female and about to embark on a 4-day cycle trip to France having caught the bug! I really need to keep my pack as light as possible so would love one of these.
Gerry Sorce
Yes please !
J Chapman
Yes please
Peter Chisnall
Inflating!
Carol W
It’s deflating having a puncture but all the better to be prepared 🙂
Rachel Griffiths
A puncture repair kit would be very welcome! 🙂
Chris D
Yes please
Tom C
This would be great piece of kit to have on hand for the bike rides with my boys who are just learning about basic bike maintenance.
Rue P
Yes, please. The kit is something that will be handy for everybody sooner or later.
Peter Clark
Love dhb. One of the top cycling brands
Martin Stefan
The p*nct*r* fairies weren’t kind to me in April. Nor were the spoke trolls. I’m hoping for a better May.
Christopher Light
I will be able to show my Cub pack how to do punctures on their bikes and also on mine .
phillip john
i would appreciate a new puncture repair kit
Dick Willis
The only bit of cycling kit that you can guarantee needing at some point!
Tomasz
Lovely kit for long weekend rides, during Giro d’Italia race, please.
Rod Hewson
Would love to have one and hope it is never used, some chance.
Question: would you consider doing car insurance?
Steve Atkinson
Hey guys, thanks for the giveaway! Would love to get my hands on one…
Jamie Johnson
stick it to me… please!
Vita
Never won…..how do you do that? …..Pick me…..Bike is my second set of feet….
Vita
Never won…..how do you do that? Pick me I live on my bike
Douglas Milsom
I’m “tyred” of walking home with a flat, so would love to win one of these!
Mark B
This would be wonderful.
Francis Blake
Be prepared! That’s what I learnt in the scouts over 50 years ago, but somehow I never am with punctures, so this might at last get me there!
Jim Roques
Yes please saddle bags are alway welcome.
Wayne
Had more punctures this year than the past 10 years, roads are becoming death traps for cyclists
Michael Churton
Just what I need for the potholes I miss – agh, there goes another one…I need rim repairs toooooo!!
Lance Woodman
This would be very useful
David Hamilton
An essential bit of kit. Yes Please.
Chris Bromwich
Need to get my old bike out as part of training for next years London Marathon (Provided i get selected of course) so a traveling repair kit would be most welcome.
Alastair Seagroatt
Recent trip to Spain/Portugal, 3 punctures all on the way to & from Faro.
Hope the puncture fairy has had enough of me for a while, but . . . .
David Sproxton
One of the joys of bikes is that most minor repairs can be carried out by the rider with a little knowledge and simple tools. It make this mode of transport wonderfully convivial. Why bicycle puncture repair isn’t on the school curriculum defeats me, it’s so easy and so satisfying to get yourself back on the road after an annoying thorn has halted your progress. Every household should have a puncture repair outfit !
John Chivall
Could do with a saddle bar and puncture kit for my partner’s bike… 🙂
James Russell
Can I have it for my friend Marty so that he can sort it out his own punctures!
Francis Voon
Another one for the uncertainties of cycling.
Ema
This would be a welcome present for my new bike 🙂
Andy
yes please! that would be fab
Steve
A very useful prize!
Anna Green
This would save me forgetting to swap my puncture repair kit between bikes.
ManFai Tang
Great to have a kit in an accessible location
Roger Wortley
Can’t wait to win this!
Stephen D.
Very neat bit of kit. Thanks for the opportunity ETA!!
Gill Watling
Punctures are the bain of my life! Already upgraded my tyres, but this would complete my defence.
Gill
MARK
A new puncture repair kit would be very useful and the saddle bag is very nicely sized, good stuff ETA! Fingers crossed.
Elspeth
That small saddle bag shouldn’t cause me to break Velominati rule #29 too much! Let’s agree it’s allowable! 🙂 It would be just right for me please.
Gary
It’s about time I won one of these offers – Pleeeease 😉
Craig
DHB make some very nice kit, I’m sure this is a great prize for the fortunate ones, thanks
Matthew
A message at the bottom of the page. 😉
Richard W
Very nice could do with some insurance so my ride isn’t flat 🚴♀️
COL
I WOULD LOVE TO WIN THESE PLEASE.
ADVICE TO ALL: In the event of a puncture, be sure to rigorously inspect your tyre for the source of the puncture to try to avoid a repeat. We should also regularly inspect our tyres for embedded debris which will eventually work its way in and cause a puncture.
COL
frank
I’m preparing for that “thorn in my side”
steve
This would help me greatly, fingers crossed again. Thanks ETA
carol berenger
i love to win 1 of these as i work at to schools lolypop lady at 1 nd dinner lady at another so would be loverly as i bike everyday
MISS PUNAM GOGNA
Hiya
I HAVE A SMART EBIKE COMING SOON..! (fingers crossed )….IT’S THA NIREEKA (EU HOMMIE) EBIKE ON INDIEGOGO AS OF NOW MAY/2018 & A SMART PUNCTURE REPAIR KIT WOULD BE THE PERFECT COMPANION.!
THNX GUYS & 2 EVERY1 ELSE GOOD-LUCK PPL…YA ALL ALREADY WINNERS, DON’T 4GET THAT..!
N.B…
*Stay close 2 GOD my friend*.!!