Got a thorn descending down a fast hill...never had my bike get that squirrelly. Glad I was prepared, but little disappointed with the CO2...not quite the psi I was hoping for.

How many miles?

Around the same but with tubulars.

A good guess is about 5500 miles. We have good roads in SoCal and I avoid debris pretty good. Can't see thorns though. Gator skins were great, now I'm on Michelin Krylions, but I don't think it would have mattered.

12,000 km and counting on one set of Schwalbe Hurricanes... mtb tyres.

Can't recall the last time I had a flat on a road tyre.

The first dozen years of my life I never had a flat . . . but didn't have a bike either!

Had a flat over a month ago (1k miles streak over two months before then).

My record? About 3500km. An then three flats in the next 20km.

My record was one set of tires from brand new until worn enough to be replaced...about 4,000 miles. Replaced them with the same tire - Michelin Krylion Carbon - and got a flat within a month.

Two weeks.

I´ve been flat free for two years. Then I had a puncture a month ago. But I´m extremely cautious with my tires/tubes. I change after 1000 km if I see any damages. I only do Conti on my road bikes.

I´ve got three kids. I do lots of flats anyway.

OK, maybe I'm exaggerating.

It's probably more like 10 days.

Mention it and you'll get one today...

If there were ever a jinx thread, this would be it.

Dude, you are so screwed for saying that.

Just out of curiosity, what do you use to inflate flats on the road?

He looks like a pretty strong guy; he's probably using his lungs

That explains why his tires don't stay fully inflated. Ideally, they should be filled with cold rather than hot air.

1 flat after 1500+ miles.

Two flats today and one broken valve stem.

Of course there is always some luck involved in avoiding flats but from my experience I would say it is 10% luck and 90% human error. Now that I buy high quality, fairly flat resistant tires (GP4000's lately), perfect tire pressure on every ride, replacing tires when they hit the wear indicators, decent tubes, etc., I have reduced my flat rate dramatically.

I have averaged about 1 flat per 6000 miles in the last 4 years (about 1 per year). About half of those were even when I broke my own rules and was trying to bleed a little too much mileage out of the tires.

ive around 300 miles im new and just got my first this week, i was happy with myself that all went smooth, i went and the co2 for the threadless canisters now i just fill up a bit with my pump and top off with a c02 and buy a 20 pack at any store!

On decent roads, I can buy that.

On the roads I commute on, no one is going to average anywhere near 6K miles on even the most flat resistant tires.

4 years on my tubeless mtb setup.

road? ****, probably 4 rides.

50 miles today, no punctures.

Go figure.

I have a 22 mile TT tomorrow, hoping this streak of insane good luck lasts at least until mile 21.95.

Dunno on my road bike (which is pretty new anyway) the only flat it's had was from an apparently defective valve.

On my mountain bike it sitll has both original tubes from when I bought the bike in 2005 and I ride it at least twice a week and have worn out several sets of tires.