Bicycling magazines suicide tip #56
11-26-07, 08:04 AM
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"Tire wiping is akin to throwing salt over ones shoulder except that it has more ill effects. Tire wipers hands are dirty and if they ride hard they wipe this grime onto their faces. Today's short bicycle frames make wiping rear tires dangerous because the fingers can get jammed between seat tube and tire that nearly touch." -- Jobst Brandt (https://yarchive.net/bike/glass_puncture.html)
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11-26-07, 08:22 AM
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"Tire wiping is akin to throwing salt over ones shoulder except that it has more ill effects. Tire wipers hands are dirty and if they ride hard they wipe this grime onto their faces. Today's short bicycle frames make wiping rear tires dangerous because the fingers can get jammed between seat tube and tire that nearly touch." -- Jobst Brandt (https://yarchive.net/bike/glass_puncture.html)
I also ride in Amish country and near horse farms. Any wipe of my tires during a ride, glove or no, would be like wiping a horse's ass at 200rpm. Skid marks indeed.
11-26-07, 09:48 AM
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"Tire wiping is akin to throwing salt over ones shoulder except that it has more ill effects. Tire wipers hands are dirty and if they ride hard they wipe this grime onto their faces. Today's short bicycle frames make wiping rear tires dangerous because the fingers can get jammed between seat tube and tire that nearly touch." -- Jobst Brandt (https://yarchive.net/bike/glass_puncture.html)
JB apparently spent more time theorizing about bikes than riding them.
Maybe if he spent his hard-earned Ducats on expensive tubies, he'd feel differently. I went nine years without a flat. I ride lots, but carefully. I wipe my tires with a gloved hand whenever I feel as though I've ridden through anything that could give me a flat. I do not consider this to be superstitious or grounded in fantasy. It works!
I suppose he'll be telling me my perfectly straight and true 10 year old handbuilt tied and soldered wheels are useless as well!
(Yes, I know.....)Whatever, Jobst.
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11-26-07, 11:08 AM
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Agreed. I have been wiping my tires after running over debris for over 30 yrs. I get very few flat on my sew-ups.
Recently, I retrained myself to wipe the rear tire first as it has more weight over it.
If anything fails to come off after wiping with a gloved hand I stop for a visual inspection. I have pulled out embedded glass and thorns which if riddened on further would have resulted in a flat.
I also fill in small cuts and nicks in the thread once or twice per season with a tube of liquid rubber which smellls much like model airplane cement. Maybe I have OCD?
Recently, I retrained myself to wipe the rear tire first as it has more weight over it.
If anything fails to come off after wiping with a gloved hand I stop for a visual inspection. I have pulled out embedded glass and thorns which if riddened on further would have resulted in a flat.
I also fill in small cuts and nicks in the thread once or twice per season with a tube of liquid rubber which smellls much like model airplane cement. Maybe I have OCD?
11-26-07, 11:33 AM
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Fo' sho'!
Step one - place the top (knuckle side) of your thumb against the front (leading edge) of your seat stay.
Step two - place the top (knuckle side) of your fingertips against the back (trailing edge) of your seattube.
Step three - SLOWLY slide your hand down (towards the ground) while keeping pressure on both the front of your seat stay & the back of your seattube -- your thumb and fingers will be expanding further apart as you do so, such that your now-exposed but safely braced palm is the only thing that makes contact with the spinning tire.
Extra points if you can do this while pedalling at a high cadence.
Step one - place the top (knuckle side) of your thumb against the front (leading edge) of your seat stay.
Step two - place the top (knuckle side) of your fingertips against the back (trailing edge) of your seattube.
Step three - SLOWLY slide your hand down (towards the ground) while keeping pressure on both the front of your seat stay & the back of your seattube -- your thumb and fingers will be expanding further apart as you do so, such that your now-exposed but safely braced palm is the only thing that makes contact with the spinning tire.
Extra points if you can do this while pedalling at a high cadence.
11-26-07, 12:44 PM
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I was wondering if other folks do this. I've been doing it for years and it certainly cuts down on flats from glass.
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11-26-07, 12:46 PM
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"Tire wiping is akin to throwing salt over ones shoulder except that it has more ill effects. Tire wipers hands are dirty and if they ride hard they wipe this grime onto their faces. Today's short bicycle frames make wiping rear tires dangerous because the fingers can get jammed between seat tube and tire that nearly touch." -- Jobst Brandt (https://yarchive.net/bike/glass_puncture.html)
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11-26-07, 01:14 PM
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I've alternately brushed my tires, and not brushed them. The biggest determining factor in puncture resistance for me has been tire wear, and I run mine pretty thin. Still, I pretty much always brush the front if I go through debris. I don't bother with the rear any more.
11-26-07, 01:30 PM
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I've done it after rolling through glass (that I couldn't avoid). I wouldn't do it every 5 min. though....
