Comments | poisonkitty: Three flat weekend

poisonkitty

Three flat weekend

Mar 02, 2008 14:08

Ok, today I got 2 more flats while riding the OCNP trail this morning. Cactus must be in thorn bloom this weekend, because I've gone about 2 months without any punctures, then I get 3 in one weekend. I'm going to have to research a better solution to this. I use to have Mr. Tuffy liners in my commuter tires, but that didn't always work well. I've ( Read more... )

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webwawa March 3 2008, 00:50:40 UTC

there are a ton of BURRS out there right now, but those only pierce road tires i think.

everything is starting to bloom & sprout now though.. cactus were blooming down in south texas

poisonkitty March 3 2008, 03:30:15 UTC

Yeah, I'm either going to get beefier tires or the Mr. Tuffy liners. Maybe both. I just can't see riding much more like this and still enjoying it. Two flats in about an hour is just too much. I didn't actually fix the second one in the rear tire. Since it was a kinda slow leak, I just raced it back to my car before going totally flat.

webwawa March 3 2008, 03:33:54 UTC

I've been really really lucky riding out in the country with my road bike. A lot of the time we have to ride on the shoulder of highways or service roads, and I'm so paranoid about sharp objects.

I only got ONE flat tire, which was after turning a corner and riding on the shoulder in some little country town. *knock on wood*

sometimes though on those organized rides, they hire a street sweeper to go down the routes before the ride to clear the way - how cool is that?!

c1 March 3 2008, 02:35:30 UTC

Maybe they make a lightweight steel-belted radial bike tire?

They make lightweight steel? *grin*

poisonkitty March 3 2008, 03:45:32 UTC

Glad you see my humor. :)

The WTB VelociRaptor tires seem to be popular in this area. At $50 a pair, they seem like an average deal. Bonus if they actually perform well. The alternative is to keep the current tires and put $15 Mr. Tuffy liners in them. I see a lot of people recommending the conversion to tubeless with Stan's Tubeless System, but for $60, I'll have to do a bit more research.

c1 March 3 2008, 04:03:56 UTC

The engineers designing the lunar rover realized early on that conventional tyres would never work in the extreme cold and vacuum of space, so they designed a nifty metal tyre-- it's this neat metal-mesh that has some flex to it, but also has massive "gription" because it's made of mesh.
Of course, if you were riding in 1/6 gravity, you'd prolly not notice the weight like you would here.