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Old 07-25-09 | 07:10 PM
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From: Huntsville/Decatur/Florence Alabama

Bikes: Jamis Aurora, Fuji S10S (X2), Jamis Coda

Best advice you ever got from an LBS

Here's mine.

My road tool bag includes a pair of 33 cent cheap nylons from Wal-Mart. The LBS recommended them because road flats from glass can (often do) leave glass shards in the tire. If you use your fingers to verify that the tire is "clean" on the inner surface, then you can get sliced fingers. You have to do something, because visual inspections can miss small stuff and you don't want a second flat. Therefore, run the wadded nylons around the inside surface of the tire. Anything that can cause a repeat flat will snag and you can follow the nylon material right back to the source.
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