My advice? 1) after a flat, find out what caused it. Look at both the tube and tire. Notice what the tube hole looks like. Slice? Neat little puncture? (Hint - always locate the tire label at the valve. That way you know where to look on the tire if you have a hole in the tube say 7" away from the valve. Even if you've removed the tire.) Flats can be caused by issues on the inside the tire, the tape and the rim.. Also by small thorns, pieces of glass and short car and truck tire liner wires that can be completely hidden in your tire's tread, just re-emerging to puncture the next tube. So, 2) patch your tubes. Notice when the next tube is exactly the same distance from the valve. Now you know to within an inch where the issue is on the tire, tape or tube. Find it.
And look for snake bites. A second hole a 1/2 to 3/4 inch from the first and beside it. That is your rim pinching the tire upon hitting a pothole, curb edge or even just bottoming out hard on the pavement. Tubes don't take kindly to that pinch. (There isn't always a second hole but if there is, it's 99.9% likely to be a snake bike. Even a hint of pinch damage at the beside location - almost certainly that snake.) Snake bite prevention is the easy one. More air pressure. Enough always works. (Now more air pressure could cause other problems like blowouts, beads unseating ... Very heavy riders on bikes that limit tire width to very narrow may be challenged to find the sweet spot between enough air to not pinch flat and little enough to not destroy the tire. Too much rider weight and not enough tire width, maybe not even possible. (Buy a bike that takes bigger tires.)
When you know what's causing your flats, you can take a reasonable approach to preventing more. Throwing everything you can find at the wall to see what sticks can be time consuming, costly and often leads to heavy, not so much fun to ride wheels.
Last edited by 79pmooney; 10-06-24 at 12:45 PM.