Help! Never ending flats

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03-16-13 | 11:21 PM

#26

banerjek

Portland Fred

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Originally Posted by Kylala

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Originally Posted by abhirama

Did you try Schwalbe Marathon Plus?

Ok, I'm kinda confused on this too

I'm sorry. So this is a tire NOT an inner tube?

The Marathon Plus is the gold standard in flat protection. Gatorskins, Armadillos, Hardcases, etc are crap in comparison on that dimension and I say that as someone who's ridden 20K miles+ on each.

Having said that, the Marathon Plus is a heavy and slow tire that is hard to change. It's very resistant to glass shards, but no tire is flat proof.

03-17-13 | 06:22 PM

#27

OldsCOOL

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From: northern michigan

Bikes: '77 Colnago Super, '76 Fuji The Finest, '88 Cannondale Criterium, '86 Trek 760, '87 Miyata 712

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Originally Posted by Stun

That looks like New Mexico! When I lived there I had a flat almost every day. Slime worked for me though. Part of my routine was to wake up, spin the wheel around for a while then inflate. I don't miss those days looking back, but my tradeoff is 10" of snow...

More like 10ft up here in Boyne City.