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Old 08-16-07, 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by gbcb
Thanks for the tips. I haven't located the leak yet, but was just baffled that I lost air so quickly... I've never had problems like this before with my other tires and tubes, but I've never run skinny, high-pressure tires before.
Skinny tires can be quite flat prone if you don't take the necessary precautions.

I bought a road bike for cheap, $50, a year ago because the owner got tired of flat after flat. I installed new tubes and it flat right away. I mean as soon as I hit 100 psi I heard a loud hissing noise. It turned out that the edges of the hole in the rim where the valve goes into was SHARP on both rims. A grinding bit and a dremel tool took care of that problem.
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