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Old 07-04-09 | 02:14 AM
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Originally Posted by PedallingATX
Also, I started running gatorskins in the 2 months since I posted in this thread and haven't gotten a flat since...it's a record for me.
I went 12,000 miles without a flat and then had several that all happened to my old cruisers that picked up big assed nails... one short nail embedded itself in the tyre and went through one side of the tube and on every rotation was just long enough to punch a new hole on the opposite side of the tube.

The tube looked like swiss cheese but was still patchable.
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