Originally Posted by
Retro Grouch
"According to the bike shop attendant" Do yourself a favor, take off your tire and take a look for yourself. All that it takes is the tiniest little arc of unprotected spoke hole to cause your inner tubes to puncture repeatedly.
I did that. In fact, the tire was off the majority of the time and I took it off 7 times to make another attempt at patching the tube. It looked fine to me. The reason I said, "According to the bike shop attendant" is to indicate that I got the advice of an expert rather than relying on my own opinion. I'm not as familiar with the way it should look as the guys at the bike shop are.