Eric, yes, the slivers of wire and micropunctures are what bedevil me as well. Pesky staples from postings on telephone poles eventually find their way onto the road. Tires: I've used several of the ones under discussion and have to give props to the Soma 650b B Line 38mm. A variant of the Pasela but to me feel pretty good. Not sure if they're still selling it though.
Regards, Richard On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 4:53:58 PM UTC-4, Eric Norris wrote: > > I’m not as good as Mark at tracking flats, but my general impression is > that the flats I’ve been getting over the past few years have been trending > more toward “micropunctures,” usually caused by tiny slivers of wire. In > fact, I’ve started carrying a pair of tweezers on my rando bike so I can > extract these very tiny pieces of junk from the tire. > > I’ve switched from Pasellas to Compass/Grand Bois tires over the past two > years, and the number of flats seems to gone up, but not by much. I did > suffer my first flat in three editions of PBP last year riding on Grand > Bois “Extra Leger” Cerfs; a very thin stone chip was culprit. PBPs #1 and 2 > were done on Pasellas, without a single flat. > > I remember back in the day we were all worried about broken glass in the > roadway. With the change in recent years to plastic soda bottles, the > volume of broken glass has gone way down—I can’t remember the last time I > had a flat and found that a piece of glass was the culprit. > > --Eric Norris > campyo...@me.com <javascript:> > www.campyonly.com > campyonlyguy.blogspot.com > > On Aug 12, 2016, at 1:26 PM, rob markwardt <robm...@hotmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > on two different bikes. Front, back, all different spots, pinch and > regular. None were really noticeable...no nails or chunks of glass. > Maddening. > > -- > 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 <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
