Originally Posted by
Mort Canard
One other handy item in dealing with flats is a pair of tire savers (aka flint catchers or sticker flickers) This is a 1970s old school solution that one can still find on occasion.
These seem like such a good idea, and yet almost no one uses them anymore. I'd like to see some testing to see if they really work. For example, getting pieces of glass onto the tire in a trainer on a lab, with video to show what happens, and experiments to determine effectiveness.