Biking sucks!
08-29-09 | 08:09 PM
#76
Ridin for the sweat
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 155
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From: College Point
Bikes: Giordano Libero
I just had to resurrect this.
I made it 3000km on my last set of tubes. I avoided entire parts of my trip which had the most junk, and every 300km or so I would deflate my tires entirely and pick out all the glass. (deflate them so i could squeeze the tire and open up the holes that the glass was in).
Either way it made me happy, and the tube that ended up popping was the one which had a Gatorskin tire and a Tuffy tire liner. I had one tire with that combo and another tire (front so its not quite the same) with just a basic tire which has 10km on it. Which makes me beleive entry level tires are just as good as puncture proof ones. That was my little experiment but I will keep it going to get some stats.
I made it 3000km on my last set of tubes. I avoided entire parts of my trip which had the most junk, and every 300km or so I would deflate my tires entirely and pick out all the glass. (deflate them so i could squeeze the tire and open up the holes that the glass was in).
Either way it made me happy, and the tube that ended up popping was the one which had a Gatorskin tire and a Tuffy tire liner. I had one tire with that combo and another tire (front so its not quite the same) with just a basic tire which has 10km on it. Which makes me beleive entry level tires are just as good as puncture proof ones. That was my little experiment but I will keep it going to get some stats.
I truly find it hard to belive that you have had better luck with a basic tire such as a kenda k35, and not a Conti Gatorskin w/ a tire liner.
