I read this thread before riding today. "Shouldn't a dun it"!! Final 11 miles of a 50 mile ride - I'm walking my bike across a bridge (where we two-wheelers are not allowed to ride across - gotta walk, don't ya know).
Get to the other side, and my rear tire is flat as a flitter. Down to my last spare tube, but I did have it and my pump with me. Changed the tube and rode the rest of the way home - no prob. I actually managed to get 105 psi into the new tube with my hand pump (seems I have a problem getting full pressure using that hand pump.
It had been a while since I had a flat - so, I guess I cannot complain.
Pulled what looked like a 3/4-inch strand of cable out of the side wall of my Schwalbe Kevlar belted tire - can't imagine how I managed to hit something that embedded a single strand of wire through my sidewall like that - spent the entire day riding the roads - go figure.
Caruso