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Old 03-19-05, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by recursive
tires are over 3000 miles, front and back
i replace tubes after being patched ~4 times or damaging the valve, which has only happened a few times.
I bought a bike from a friend, that had paper thin racing tires. He said he had been patching the rear tube to see how many patches he could put on one tube. We took out the tube, I counted 46 patches. It was not leaking at the time. I replaced it anyway.
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