Hibiscus,

Why not just ask your LBS to walk you thru the drill once or twice (or three) times? If they offer "any" kind of customer service, surely this should be it. Especially if you bought the bike from them in the first place. Just say that you ride alone alot, and your husband isn't mechanical, and you want to be able to do it yourself. The guy at my LBS seemed thrilled that I was actually interested and asking questions about routine maintenance. And if you are anything like me, just watching doesn't help alot, I have to actually lay hands on in order to get the hang of it!


Barb,

Yeah " Slime scabs" - lovely name isn't it? They are made by the "Slime" people and are pre-glued patches ('scabs' for tire boo-boos, I guess) I ran into them accidentally on the Performancebike.com site. They were actually very easy to use.
Good luck!