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Old 04-10-08 | 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by exhibitx
they have tuffy tape (same thing as stop flats) at urbane and mec for cheaper (although i don't think they have the 700c orange)

i run it in all my tires now ... the area where i work has a scrap metal sorting building and other industrial ****tyness, i was getting 2 or 3 flats a week until i started using tuffy's, i think the only one i've had since was from a pothole downtown

that is my experience with it anyways
perhaps if the strip is replaced occasionally much as a tire, it wouldnt end up drying out and cracking... it looks lke a fair call, and hey, even if after x amount of time it dries and cracks, its still saved you piles of money in patches and inner tubes, no?
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