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--- In bikingroseville@yahoogroups.com, "bjhaake" <bjhaake@...> wrote:
>
> --- In bikingroseville@yahoogroups.com, "sastrugi7" <mlk_home@> wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering what advice you all might have... What do you use?
> >
>
> Hi Marjorie,
>
> just making sure I understand, you are talking about the same bike for
> rec and commute riding, right (so the same tires get flats during
> commute, but are fine during rec riding)?
> I recently bought tires from Schwalbe (http://www.schwalbetires.com/)
> for both my road and commute bike. I was very impressed. I ran into a
> 1.5 inch long metal piece (you can see a picture under the files
> section on the left panel, file is called culprit.jpg) on my road
> bike. It went into the tire almost halfway. I tried to adjust since it
> was hitting the frame - I thought if I'd pull it out I'd have a flat
> for sure. Well, eventually I had wiggled it enough that it came out
> anyway and the tire held! It's already seen a few hundred miles since
> then and still air in there. Sure, not the lightest tire, but for a
> commute bike it should be ok. On my Touring bike I have the "Marathon
> Plus" (and the "Stelvio Plus" on the road bike).
> I guess in general tire liners should work, too - I just used them
> for a limited time many years ago - I had some trouble at the time
> getting them in right (causing me a few flats due to improper
> installation...)
>
> In fact I'll be ordering another Schwalbe pair for my MTB, as the
> current el-cheapo tires constantly become holy...
>
> bjorn
>