ravenmore

heh - everyone's such a tough guy on bf.

guadzilla

Great thread. An OP who continues to dig the hole deeper as the main thread and a bromance between Agave and Ravenmore as a side plot. Now, all we need is some gratuitous bike porn/shots of Liz Hatch and this has all the ingredients of a 10-pager.

Agave

Hey when you shave your legs it's all you have.




Mmmmmmmmmm, BBQ brisket. OK, TX ain't all that bad........but it's cold as **** in Sanger in the winter.

ravenmore

It was 60 degrees here yesterday. First day of winter we set a record and hit 85.

roadwarrior

It's a LBS. Local Bike Shop.

I have those tires as they came stock with my Super Six HM. They've got about 1,500 miles on them. No problems. I have not ridden them before. No issues.

BTW...blaming the tires as being defective because you were unfortunate enough to ride over some debris reminds me of my favorite logic sequence....If A follows B and B follows C, A must have caused C.

And since I work in a shop I am guessing the $85 includes a new tire.

BmoreDrew

You could have still put it on by yourself.. but it sounds like you are trying really hard to convince us you know how to change a tire/tube. Hmmm....

rufvelo

Coincidently 85 is also what the OP spent on fixing his tire...interesting.

rufvelo

Liz Hatch? Maybe the the Polish Cycling Team would be more appropriate at this point.

Agave

Far be it from me to ruin a sweet thread like this with on topic content but......

I'd blame the tubes not the tires. The tubes are what let you down......well you and your bike. That's unless you also post in the Clydesdale forum and were running 22's at the now famous 130 psi., then you let the tubes down. Or perhaps crushed them down.........

Chris R.

The OP said that the LBS checked the rim tape when they took the tires off; was it properly installed? Maybe you had a puncture due to the rim tape not being properly installed.
I'm not a big fan of Shwalbe tires though I have a pair and they have been ok so far. I've flatted on pretty much all the tires I've ever bought...just to make you feel better.
As well, if you change the tire, even if you are only 1 mile away, then you can continue your ride! That's why we do all this stuff..to ride.

techlogik

ROFL at this thread. Can't believe most of you actually read the entire rant.

Anyway...I am disappointed still with the lame responses. I was hoping for some jolly good laughs at my expense with some slick repartee.

Instead, I have to make most of my own jokes and self-depracating humor to troll you people.

Like my team car (wife) who is willing to come 1 mile to get me when I can walk it, or fix my tire in 10 minutes.

Instead, I get pathetic put down attempts as if I would be insulted by your poor attempts at intrawebz forum humor.

Please take it up a notch guys. It's a tire you know and a flat that happens to everyone already, as if I never had a flat.

Schwalbe still sucks though no matter how you look at the situation.

Waiting patiently for some actual good replies here.

Good day mates!!!!

Quel

Believe me, you got those with your initial post and continue to rack them up as the thread goes on.

Hida Yanra

OOC - did your average speeds go up or down while riding on the Schwalbes?

banerjek

That's what we're here for. If you hang around here, you'll learn a lot.

Calling for help unnecessarily is a classic n00b mistake. Allowing yourself to be rescued signals to your wife that you are in over your head. If this happens, you'll be relegated to piddly rides and you'll be lucky if you can get bike gear from REI.

If you want to buy high end zoot or regularly go out for all day rides (especially if travel is required), your wife needs to think you are a badass. This means you need to make everything look easy, particularly stuff she assumes would shut you down. She'll call you an idiot to your face but secretly you will have won her respect. She'll even tell her friends what an idiot you are, but in reality she's bragging.

It wasn't that long ago that my wife thought $175 was a lot for a bike. Now, she thinks of $2500 as cheap and thinks nothing of annual trips for some of my favorite rides.

rufvelo

+1. This is one of the reasons I will not be easily divorced...just can't go thru the process of re-training the new one.

rufvelo

...agreed, but only if it is going to cost $85 every time you flat....our mileage may vary.

midgetmaestro 

Your bad luck is no reason to slander a good product and business.

Hida Yanra

funny that - being as how they sponsor a whole lot of teams at all levels of the sport... I race their tyres, train on their tyres, and in the last year I have not flatted a schwalbe once.
Not Even Once.

I went on several, frankly, multiple rides of great distance (several even left which left my neighborhood!), and I didn't flat a single tyre.
This next year, I'll be getting a whole lot more of their products because I am incredibly pleased with them. FWIW - I'm choosing them over Vittoria, our other rubber-products sponsor.
I'd be putting my racing fees & energy on the line and losing every time if your version of their product worth was to be believed.

so, for what it is worth, that's my opinion.

10 Wheels

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