Tire savers are meant to be positioned a mm or 2 above the tire. This can be done even with the typical out-of-round of most tires.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Jan Heine <hein...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I don't use tire wipers > <http://www.compasscycle.com/tires_wipers_700.html> any longer, since I > just don't have enough flats to warrant the noise and dust they put on the > bike. When I raced on 21.5 mm tubulars, I had lots of flats until I started > using tire wipers. Thereafter, only a single flat in three years of racing > – the tire wiper had become dislodged and no longer rubbed the surface of > the tire... > > Jan Heine > Compass Bicycles Ltd. > www.compasscycle.com > > Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ > > On Sunday, November 16, 2014 3:47:55 PM UTC-8, AaronY wrote: >> >> Jan, >> >> Do you still use tire sweeper contraptions? >> >> Thanks, >> Aaron Young >> The Dalles, OR >> >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Jan Heine <hei...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >>> I agree with you, with one caveat: Width and tire pressure make a huge >>> difference. If you are comparing two 32 mm tires, the supple, light one >>> will get more flats. But if you are comparing a puncture-resistant 32 mm >>> tire with a supple, light 42 mm tire, the 42 mm tire probably will get >>> fewer flats. >>> >>> For me, the key to riding supple tires with almost zero flats has been >>> wide tires, which I run at 38-45 psi. >>> >>> Jan Heine >>> Compass Bicycles Ltd. >>> www.compasscycle.com >>> >>> Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> On Saturday, November 15, 2014 10:28:17 AM UTC-8, Tim McNamara wrote: >>>> >>>> The simple physics is that light, supple tires with thin rubber are >>>> going to be punctured more easily than tires with thicker rubber, heavier >>>> walls, puncture strips, etc. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************* *[I]n exploring the physical universe man has made no attempt to explore himself. Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to destroy consciousness. If one started by asking, what is man? what are his needs? how can he best express himself? one would discover that merely having the power to avoid work and live one’s life from birth to death in electric light and to the tune of tinned music is not a reason for doing so.”* * -- George Orwell, Pleasure Spots* *Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and it is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money. * * -- George Orwell, Keep The Apidistra Flying* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
