Duane Donovan bikes every work day from Bradford in Kaikorai Valley to Logan Park, rain or shine.
"I'm averaging almost two flats a month as a commuter, and it's entirely down to the poor maintenance of the roads," Mr Donovan said.
"There is broken glass everywhere, and it stays there for weeks and weeks, sometimes months."
Mr Donovan recently bought a new tyre for $90, but that was punctured this week.
"Mondays are bad because people chuck bottles on the road over the weekend," he said.
Eight punctures this year happened between Broadway and Napier St, because of glass and debris on Serpentine Ave and Hawthorne Ave, he said.
"In the dark and wet it's basically invisible, and with grit in the mix you have no chance."
Mr Donovan said complaining to the Dunedin City Council yielded underwhelming results.
The council has yet to respond to a request for comment.
Mr Donovan said the council had spent a lot of money creating separated cycleways, but they did not link up.
"What I'd like to see are cycle priority areas, where simple council actions could improve cycling at little to no cost," he said.
"Designate certain arterial roads as ‘cycling roads', and then sweep them every few days, make those areas a priority for parking enforcement, make sure they are well lit, maintain the surface, and ask the police to monitor them to the best of their ability.
"It is never going to be possible to cycle where you need to be without sharing the road, so we need to put efforts into improving that experience."
Mr Donovan said he used a couple of blocks of the one-way system in the city, but he shared the road space with other vehicles for the rest of the trip.
Average, everyday trips in the city needed to be viable, he said.
"All the fancy showpieces in the world won't make cycling popular."
Mr Donovan said he relished cycling on his electric bike.
Walking the bike home after a puncture was annoying when it happened so often.
"If there were a road where cars were getting punctures at a rate of two a month, it would have been sorted by now."
