The tires on my bike are flat, but I don't know whether it's a hole in the tire itself or in the inter tube.|||Obviously it is a hole in the inner tube. It is the inner tube that holds air not the tire. You could also have a hole in the tire that is causing a hole in the tube.|||A close visual inspection of the whole tire may yeild something that caused the hole - a tack or a nail or something.
If a visual inspection doesn't give you the hole-maker - you have to CAREFULLY run your finger round the inside of the tire (DO THIS SLOWLY AND SUPER-CAREFULLY or you may end up getting seriously cut).
If you find nothing - in the tire wall, don't worry - it probably fell out.
As for the inner tube - you inflate that normally and feel for the escaping air. If you can't do that dry - you have to do it wet - find a basin of water and pass the tube through the water till you find it|||Remove the inner tube and inflate it slightly - not a lot because it doesn't have the tyre around it to stop it from expanding. Now hold it underwater and you'll see bubbles coming out from where the puncture is. Repair this and then check the tyre for anything sticking through it that's just going to puncture the tube again when you put it back together.|||I would look up inter tube on the inner net.|||It's a flat- fix it with Fix-A-Flat that you can buy at Walmart, or buy a new inner-tube.
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