Old 07-05-13 | 12:06 AM
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Velo Dog
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Originally Posted by Dudelsack
If you want bullet-proof tires, consider Schwalbe Marathon Plus. Have someone else install them.
Good tires, but why have someone else install them? I'd be embarrassed to do that...
For the OP, if you explain what you mean by "gone through" the tubes, it would be easier to solve that problem. Are they puncturing, and if so, where? If the holes are all in the same place on the tire side, you may have something stuck in the tire. Run your fingers around inside to see if you can feel it. If they're on the rim side, check for a protruding spoke or bad rim strip. A tiny, almost imperceptible sharp thing can work its way through a tube in a few miles. And there's NO reason to throw away a tube just because it got a hole in it. In 40 years of riding, probably at least 200 flats, I've had only two patch failures, and one of those was my fault--I didn't sand the tube properly.

Oh--when you mount a tire, always do it so the label is at the valve hole in the rim. That way when you find a hole in the tube, you'll know where to look in the tire for whatever caused it.

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