Originally Posted by
Andy_K
Well, I'm pretty sure there is a spot on my route where screws, shards of glass and miscellaneous other debris lie waiting to pounce. It's a six-foot wide, leaf-covered strip extending from one end of my route to the the other. They call it a bike lane.
The GP 4 Seasons have actually done amazingly well, to the point that I got lazy about even checking them over. When the front tire died this week it had so many tiny pieces of glass in it that it looked like it had been bejeweled. Those tires have a two-ply Vectran breaker, which Conti claims is harder than Kevlar. The T-Servs have Panaracer's PT Belt, which makes similar claims but I guess can be foiled by something with a fine point -- the Achilles heel of all fabric-based puncture protection. Nothing but a lot of heavy rubber stops that.
Ah yes, I thought you were on the road. Generally roads don't stay littered for too long when traffic is present. Those bike paths can be brutal. Too bad the municipal street sweeper couldn't make a pass up and down there once in a while.