I have officially just gone through a 100 pack of Rema patches<http://www.jensonusa.com/store/product/TL308I03-Rema+F1-P+25Mm+Round+Patches.aspx?sc=FRGL>in three years.
I'd rather do that than ride on Armadillos :-) On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Doug Van Cleve <dvancl...@gmail.com> wrote: > No offense guys, but you clearly ride on pretty decent roads. Where I > ride, even an armadillo is no guarantee that you won't get at least 1 flat > per week, assuming 3-4 days of riding. I have a 28mm (true width) Armadillo > on the back on my nice fixie (don't like unbolting the wheel along the road > if I can avoid it) and I run it at about 90PSI. I weigh 200+ and frankly I > don't notice anything horrible going on back there. > > I think a lot of newbies are deathly afraid of getting a flat and go for > ultra stout over light and more likely to flat... > > Doug > > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:57 PM, cyclotourist <cyclotour...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 14:34 -0800, cyclotourist wrote: >>> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> >>> > wrote: >>> > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 14:14 -0800, beth h wrote: >>> > > An astonishingly bomb-proof tire with an equally >>> > astonishingly >>> > > mediocre ride quality. >>> > >>> > >>> > Those two things do tend to go together. How does it compare >>> > with the >>> > Specialized Armadillo (my all time worst ever ride quality >>> > tire)? >>> > >>> > -- >>> > >>> > Please do not ever mention that tire in polite company. >>> >>> You would be very surprised to see how many high end (and I'm talking 8 >>> grand and up) road bikes I see with those Armadillo 700x23s. I find it >>> entirely incomprehensible. >>> >>> -- >>> >> >> Not surprised, amazed. Do they come stock like that or to owners put them >> on after purchasing them? I can't imagine a mnfg. allowing their bike to >> leave the factory with those mounted. >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> David >> Redlands, CA >> >> "Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There is something >> wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym." ~Bill Nye, >> scientist guy >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA "Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There is something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym." ~Bill Nye, scientist guy--
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