cooperryder

Thank you BicycleSafari .

Flats have been fairly rare on my Rat Traps.

The first couple hundred miles I had 3 or 4 flats on them.
I run tubes and for a while used the 'not cheap' Schwalbe tubes.

Two of the flats were tube seam separation
so were the fault of a Schwalbe manufacturing defect.

So overall I haven't had all that many flats on mine over about two years of use.

I've run them on several different bikes and guesstimate I gave between 1200 to 1500 miles on the pair so far.
They look to be wearing well and have many miles left in them.

I ride mostly on city streets.

With me flats seem to be mysterious things to pin down. I may go over a year with none and then have 3 or 4 in fairly rapid succession. This is spread over 5 or 6 rideable bikes.

​​​My current strategy is to carefully try to access the cause of the flats,
carefully repair and remount the tire/tube
and keep an eye out for glass in the streets.

Broken glass seems to be the most often cause of flats for me as so many thoughtless dimwits seem to enjoy throwing their bottles on the streets.

With my Rat Traps I have been fairly lucky.

I have been reading many seem to have success minimizing flats by going tubeless with a good sealant .