Glad to hear you didn't break a bone or two. Goatheads are bastages!! We have them thick in areas here in SC Nebraska. If I don't spray for them regularly, they go crazy. Especially toward the end of the growing season. Around here we call them puncture vine, Texas sandbur or Mexican sandbur. Didn't know they were also called Goathead until I peddled to Breckenridge CO a few years back. They were terrible in western NE and even worse in Eastern CO. Growing everywhere within the towns of Sterling and Ft. Morgan, where the residents informed me what they called 'em out there. I had 9 flats on that trip. Since then I have beefed up the tires with Armadillos and used the thick tubes from Bontrager. World of difference.