On Punctures, slime, and tyres...

After a month or so I got my first puncture about an hours walk from home and it was of the "sudden death" variety the wheel went off with a bang!
I was the amount of green goo all over the wheel and ground that indicated that the tyre had been treated with "Slime" but as the puncture was a half in slice through the tread I wan't surprised it hadn't done the trick, so went off to the local Halfords where the only tyre in my size 20" by 1.75" was a cheap BMX tyre from Sri Lanka.
I also bought  a new inner tube, and as my previous experience with Slime had been positive (an old tyre when taken off the Brompton proved to have been punctured 14 times before failure. I  bought a bottle of slime too.
I was concerned as I had never taken out a front wheel with Hub drive but this proved to be a doddle and I duly injected Slime into both tyres.
Next time it was the rear wheel.
One morning I found the rear tyre had gone down a few psi, pumped it up and did my morning ride to get back and find the pressure had been lost again, so I turned the bike over and took out the rear wheel, complicated by the rear stand and coaster brake and the two bolts and locknuts on the Torque arm, this is what  I saw

So the slime had at least got me home, probably twice at that! so I bought a new inner tube and then had fun getting the wheel back in as the twin torque nuts are difficult to start and tighten up

Believe me you wouldn't want to attempt it by the side of the road at night!!!
Since then I have had several more punctures and replaced the front tyre with a Schwalbe Marathon Plus, and the next time the rear wheel punctures it will get one too.