Maybe you're running pressures too high. In about 3000 miles I flatted two P-Rs. One was a Y-shaped stick in a pile of chert - that destroyed the tire (I had a fold up). The second was bailing wire on the road. Glued the tear in the tire with zap-a-gap, and put an ounce of stans in the tube - it's still holding up
Alan, sorry about the thread derail On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 4:54:04 PM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > Based on my experience with the Parigi Roubaix, I can affirm that the > fragility of the design is very, very real. This has to be the most > flat-prone tire I've ever seen. It's also, at least in its original > pre-PPS form, one of the nicest riding. It's actually uncanny how > smooth this tire can make badly eroded and cracked pavement feel. It is > also without a doubt the most difficult tire to mount initially. > Volumes could be written about how hard it is, and the arcane tricks you > have to resort to to mount these tires. Fortunately, after a week or so > on the rims and inflated to pressure they stretch enough to make > dismounting and remounting not too problematic -- a good thing, because > chances are by then you'll be doing so by the side of the road. > > > > > -- 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.
