07-26-2018, 08:00 PM
(07-24-2018, 09:03 AM)robdrimmie Wrote: It may be worth allocating $200 of that budget to upgraded tires. Last summer and the one previous I went through regular periods where I'd be patching or going through tubes two or three times a week. After upgrading last year I haven't touched either wheel since, except to check the air.
25 years ago when I regularly biked to and from college (and got weekly flats, I used to bike with a spare tube, pump, and tire irons in my knapsack), I bought a product called Flat Stop that was basically a heavy plastic strip you placed between the tube and tire (it came in three widths/colours). The sharp ends of the product itself caused a flat until I chamfered them and buffered them with duct tape, but after that I literally went years without a flat. I wonder if it's still around?
...K