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03-02-17 | 10:54 AM

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PatrickGSR94

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From: Memphis TN area

Bikes: 2011 Felt Z85 (road/commuter), 2006 Marin Pine Mountain (utility/commuter E-bike), 1995 KHS Alite 1000 (gravel grinder)

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Originally Posted by ptempel

I've also had the evil staple through the tire flat. I got it one rainy day going up St Nocholas Ave past Harlem School of Arts. A nice guy that saw me with the front flat told me about a small LBS on Amsterdam near 150th St. That little shop saved me that day. Crazy to think that you could actually get a staple into a tire. But apparently doable...

I recently got a flat in my utility bike's 26x1.5 hybrid tires, and found a small nail ~1.5" long that was stuck STRAIGHT into the tire, tube, and nearly punctured the inner rim-side of the tube.

I don't see how that can happen, because a nail like that would never stand straight up on a rough asphalt road surface. It should have been laying flat on the road.

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