On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Ron Farnsworth <r2far...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I got 2 flats last year in about 1000 miles with JB Greens which I ride > mostly on paved but with a little gravel and offroad thrown in now and then. > Both times it was small glass slivers that made it through (no goatheads > around this part of MA). I'm guessing these slivers would not have made it > though something with a thicker or tougher tred. I love the way the JB's > roll though. For this season I put some of those kevlar strips sold by Riv > inside the tires and will try that. > Here's a thought, though I'm not serious, but a narrow tire should run over > less glass and debris than a wider tire right? So statistically less flats? > If you had a tire 1/2" wide, you'd hardly ever get a flat! > > I get fewer flats on my 190 gr, 22 mm wide, 559 Turbos than I did on the 32 mm Paselas they replaced; and I get no more on these Turbos than on the 29 mm wide and much thicker (Steve's sense) IRC Tandems on the grocery bike. Ditto for the 200 gram 571 23 mm Conti GPs on the gofast. Make of this what you will. This is goathead country. I've gotten one, glass sliver, flat on my JB Greens after 65 miles; make of *that* what you will. (Prolly nothin'.) I used Mr Tuffys for about 50 miles back in, oh, 2002, but they made the Paselas, otherwise not bad, feel so leaden that I quickly tossed them. I'd rather fix flats. -- 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. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
