Thread: Doh! ... Ever have to walk it in?
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Old 04-12-18 | 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by tarwheel
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I dug several pieces of glass out of the tire tread when I fixed the flat in the morning, so I thought I had resolved the problem. Apparently not. Guess that tire is heading for the scrap heap. Sometimes they get small stuff imbedded in the tread that is impossible to find but keeps causing flats. As expensive as tubes are getting, it's just not worth the trouble since I probably had 2,000 miles on the tire anyway.
If you patch your tubes, you have a good record of where on the tire your flat happened. Get two flats at the same patch (or an exactly equal distance from the valve in the other direction, you know just where to look for that little piece of wire.

Edit: I gotta start looking at the thread dates!

Ben
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