Originally Posted by
DannoXYZ
I've had significantly fewer goathead flats after installing tyre-savers. It takes many revolutions of the wheel to pound the goathead through the tyre-casing, tyre-liner and tube. The tyre-saver scrapes them off on the very first 1/2 revolution of the wheel.
Not quite so significant reduction in glass-shard flats. I suspect they're small enough to just slip under the tyre-saver.
I wonder why those tire savers that people lost interest in using them when clinchers came along?