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Old 10-24-17, 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by no motor?
No kidding. I was averaging 10 miles/tube this summer until I replaced the tire with the hidden glass fragments. It had been quite a while since I had a flat before that too, and I guess I was too confident in my ability to replace the tube at the trailside.
Not saying that you don't repair tubes but this alone is a good reason to repair flats. How are your going to find that offending piece of glass if you just replace the tube? We recently got a donation of about a dozen tubes from one person at my local co-op. All of them had a puncture in the same spot...on the inside of the tube If the guy had repaired the tube, he might have found the problem before blowing roughly $70.
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