Originally Posted by
robow
Unimaginable ! I can't fathom how many patches and tubes you must have carried/gone thru. I think I would have changed hobbies.
Wonder how Marathon Pluses would hold up to those things ?
I walked the last mile and carried the last half mile after the tires fell off because they are were so flat.
On the previous ride...the one where I taunted the Goathead Gods, we had 27 punctures between 4 people. One of the punctures was on my wife’s bike which I had forgotten to put one tire liner in but the other 26 punctures were on the other two bikes. One rider got 20 and used every patch I had. She was down to riding about 1/4 of a mile, pumping up the tire (with my pump), and rinsing and repeating as needed. She used up all of my spare tubes as well. The other rider had tubeless and had to pump up every 1/2 mile.
The problem was that I did a “Neener! Neener!” dance when we got back to the trailhead and, for that, the Goathead Gods did smite me mightily!