It's time. THE Jinx Thread. Or how many flats did you get this year?
01-01-16, 07:37 PM
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1 rear puncture on my first ever commute (fishing hook) May
1 front puncture near the end of my summer commuting (broken glass) July
1 front pinch a week ago practicing my summer commute (pothole in a dark railroad underpass that wasn't there last summer) December
1 current slow leak that takes a few days to empty (cause unknown) October
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so 4 total
Hoping for less in 2016!
1 front puncture near the end of my summer commuting (broken glass) July
1 front pinch a week ago practicing my summer commute (pothole in a dark railroad underpass that wasn't there last summer) December
1 current slow leak that takes a few days to empty (cause unknown) October
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so 4 total
Hoping for less in 2016!
01-01-16, 07:46 PM
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15 flats between my wife and I for 13,000 miles this year. We get a lot of flats in the winter months due to cinders and grit.
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01-01-16, 08:57 PM
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01-03-16, 01:11 AM
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I haven't had a flat on any of my bikes for about 11 years now. No secret, no special tyres, just been lucky.
01-04-16, 10:08 AM
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Only one. I unintentionally ran over a screw that I didn't see. (It was slushy outside.)
01-04-16, 10:39 AM
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I rarely, RARELY get flats on the bike, even when I did one big summer of commuting. This year, I built up a CX gravel/commuter bike and after putting only 300 miles on it, I've gotten two flats. One was from a collection of nasty thorns during some offroad exploration, but the second was 16.5 miles into a 62.4 mile ride. And I only had one tube and one CO2 cartridge, because I'm an idiot. I luckily managed to not get another flat on that ride.
01-04-16, 10:39 AM
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Three if I recall correctly. I then went several months before my next flat -- all the way to New Year's Eve.
01-04-16, 11:31 PM
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I think 2 or 3 on my hybrid, with not many miles, and one on my road bike with over 1500 miles ridden. However, my first day on my bike this year I got an inch and a half nail through my rear tire about 200-400 yards from my work heading home.
01-04-16, 11:46 PM
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One slow leak on the front - a thin steel wire stuck on the tyre and made a tiny puncture of the tube. Fixed it at home. Leak was so slow I wasn't sure whether it was a valve, or a poor quality tube - on 28 mm tyres pressure dropped from 7 to 5 bars within a week - if there wasn't the rear tyre to compare, I wouldn't even think it's a puncture.
I had one of those and couldn't find it right away. Changed tubes twice, gave up, and put Stans in it.
Also a pinch flat.
And a nifty nail in the truck tire. I'd much rather have a bicycle flat, since I can fix them myself. Taking the truck in sucks.
01-04-16, 11:46 PM
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If I recall correctly (and I might not), I think I had four flats in 2015, all in the rear tire of my 520 during commutes to or from work. The first was an inexplicable tear at the base of the valve stem, the second was a really persistent shard of glass that barely got through my tire's puncture protection (I only noticed the tire had gone flat by the next morning), the third was yet another piece of glass, and the fourth was a centimeter-long nail that might've given a Marathon Plus a hard time.
01-05-16, 02:28 PM
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One of my flats this year was a front flat that I first felt when I was leading a small line into a turn.
I yelled "FLAT!!!!!!" at the top of my lungs and they avoided hitting me as I shallowed out the turn. Luckily we were turning left into a nice wide side road, from the center line. We'd been humming along at around 21-22 before we took the lane for the turn--and we probably hadn't slowed down all that much.
That was fun.
I yelled "FLAT!!!!!!" at the top of my lungs and they avoided hitting me as I shallowed out the turn. Luckily we were turning left into a nice wide side road, from the center line. We'd been humming along at around 21-22 before we took the lane for the turn--and we probably hadn't slowed down all that much.
That was fun.
01-05-16, 03:57 PM
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The jinx hit me hard this year. I've had 2 PRO4 Endurance tires cut down with less than 250 miles so far this year.
Luckily I buy them 6 at a time.
Luckily I buy them 6 at a time.
