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.
Ditto; The value in tiresavers is that they can usually scrape off items that stick to the tire before they have time to go around a few times and get driven though the layers. If one hits something really pointy and hard, then the T/S will either just bounce over it or knock it out of the tire. Eitherway, hitting one of that quality of pointies is either a slow leak or a immediately flat. The T/S just decreases the possiblities. BTW: Odds get better if one carefully bends the loop to closely match the shape of the inflated tire.
/K