When you go for a cycle there are a few essential items that you need to have with you. So here is the mountainbiking.ie essential guide to getting yourself from door to door without having to pull a trailer behind you. If you cycle a bike you will definitely get a puncture at some stage. Regularly, people head out with no pumps, no patches, no spare tube, no tyre levers. So they get a puncture and have to flag someone down for assistance. You are more likely to get a puncture in the wet. The water on the tyre's causes grit to cling to the tyre because of surface tension. There are a few things you can do to make getting a puncture less hassle.