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09-17-05, 02:35 PM
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...to brag about all the flats you haven't gotten. A couple days ago I posted that I hadn't had any flats on my Panaracer Pasela TG tires in several months of daily riding.
On the way home from today's ride, just about 1 block from my house, the back tire started feeling squirrelly. I stopped. Flat.
No biggie, that close to home I just walked the bike home to fix it. Little tiny hole on the tread side of the tube. I checked the tire thoroughly (and it being a Kevlar bead tire, even turned it inside out and flexed it and rubbed my thumb over it). Nothing. Whatever it was went through the tire, punctured the tube, and pulled back out.
Maybe it was a mosquito.
On the way home from today's ride, just about 1 block from my house, the back tire started feeling squirrelly. I stopped. Flat.
No biggie, that close to home I just walked the bike home to fix it. Little tiny hole on the tread side of the tube. I checked the tire thoroughly (and it being a Kevlar bead tire, even turned it inside out and flexed it and rubbed my thumb over it). Nothing. Whatever it was went through the tire, punctured the tube, and pulled back out.
Maybe it was a mosquito.
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09-17-05, 03:03 PM
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Gads, you know it! Glad you made it home OK.
Personally, I'm trying for 5K between flats i.e., 1 flat/yr...just not there yet. Even with the Armadillos, stupids stuff happens like the valve gets leaky.
Personally, I'm trying for 5K between flats i.e., 1 flat/yr...just not there yet. Even with the Armadillos, stupids stuff happens like the valve gets leaky.
09-17-05, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by michaelnel
...to brag about all the flats you haven't gotten. A couple days ago I posted that I hadn't had any flats on my Panaracer Pasela TG tires in several months of daily riding.
On the way home from today's ride, just about 1 block from my house, the back tire started feeling squirrelly. I stopped. Flat.
No biggie, that close to home I just walked the bike home to fix it. Little tiny hole on the tread side of the tube. I checked the tire thoroughly (and it being a Kevlar bead tire, even turned it inside out and flexed it and rubbed my thumb over it). Nothing. Whatever it was went through the tire, punctured the tube, and pulled back out.
Maybe it was a mosquito.
On the way home from today's ride, just about 1 block from my house, the back tire started feeling squirrelly. I stopped. Flat.
No biggie, that close to home I just walked the bike home to fix it. Little tiny hole on the tread side of the tube. I checked the tire thoroughly (and it being a Kevlar bead tire, even turned it inside out and flexed it and rubbed my thumb over it). Nothing. Whatever it was went through the tire, punctured the tube, and pulled back out.
Maybe it was a mosquito.
09-17-05, 04:49 PM
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I mentioned to my riding partner that one of us needed to get a pump. Sure enough....
09-17-05, 04:50 PM
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I should add up my miles but I believe I'm approaching (or possibly passed) 6000 miles with zero flats running Armadillos on 3 different bikes. About 4000 of those miles are on one bike on the same set of Armadillos installed around this time last year. They just got 42 more miles this morning too. They currently have the widest contact patch of any slick I've ever seen 
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Originally Posted by vrkelley
Gads, you know it! Glad you made it home OK.
Personally, I'm trying for 5K between flats i.e., 1 flat/yr...just not there yet. Even with the Armadillos, stupids stuff happens like the valve gets leaky.
Personally, I'm trying for 5K between flats i.e., 1 flat/yr...just not there yet. Even with the Armadillos, stupids stuff happens like the valve gets leaky.
Sorry, I just couldn't help myself...
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09-17-05, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by vrkelley
...Even with the Armadillos, stupid stuff happens like the valve gets leaky.
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09-17-05, 05:53 PM
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A lot of riders believe any mention of the "F" word is bad luck. They refer to "sudden deflation," "tubular incident" and other euphemisms.
09-18-05, 03:39 AM
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just today while riding to my destination I had a flat
Had to walk about 2 kms ...on my way back got it fixed from a roadside shop.... (i dont know how to fix flats
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