Tire tube

Yum said:

I had experienced too many flats this summer. Can anybody recommend good
road tube (700x23) that is flat resistant ? Or, is it more to do with
tires than tubes ? Thanks.

I'm having an unusual number (2) of non-puncture flats this summer, on my
26x2 Kmart tires. It may be solar activity, though I get them mostly (2)
at night. Former Kmart, bought on closeout for a store closing.

It looks like a fault opening, sort of a burst bubble in the rubber of the tube,
in daylight 12 hours later.

In NJ decades ago, I used to get a flat a week on 27x1 1/4 tires, always
glass or a bit of metal, commuting on Route 10 west to Whippany.

So it just depends where you ride, at the high frequency end.

At the low frequency end, it depends on how the tire breaks down.
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Ron Hardin
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Quoted message said:

I had experienced too many flats this summer. Can anybody recommend good
road tube (700x23) that is flat resistant ? Or, is it more to do with
tires than tubes ? Thanks.

Depends. How much do you weight? How high do you pump your tires? Are these
flats the pinch flat (snakebite) type? If so, try wider tires like 700x25.

The anonymous 'Yum said:

I had experienced too many flats this summer. Can anybody recommend good
road tube (700x23) that is flat resistant ? Or, is it more to do with
tires than tubes ?

Both. I assume you're talking about punctures from glass, etc. rather than
pinch flats. If you're using ultralight tubes, switch to standard weight or
even the heavy "thorn-resistant" tubes sold by Performance and others. Tires
with thicker tread will also reduce the number of flats you get.

Art Harris

Arthur Harris said:

The anonymous 'Yum said:

I had experienced too many flats this summer. Can anybody recommend good
road tube (700x23) that is flat resistant ? Or, is it more to do with
tires than tubes ?

Both. I assume you're talking about punctures from glass, etc. rather than
pinch flats. If you're using ultralight tubes, switch to standard weight or
even the heavy "thorn-resistant" tubes sold by Performance and others. Tires
with thicker tread will also reduce the number of flats you get.

Art Harris

Dear Art,

The real secret to reducing flat tires is to wait for the
sand and gravel company to close down and move down the
river to the other side of town.

After several years of averaging a flat tire every 7-10 days
on a 15-mile daily ride, I began to enjoy a surprising drop
in flat tires beginning last April.

Eventually, I noticed fewer and fewer cement and gravel
trucks at the pit. Then I took a quick drive through the
place and found that the heavy vehicles had been rolling
through a goathead plantation and scattering the damned
things up and down the road, along with loose gravel to
crack under tires and provide shark-toothed fragments.

Yesterday was my first flat in 92 days, a goathead thorn
still stuck in the tire at the sidewall. It was nice to
change a tube that had been in the tire long enough to stick
to the inside.

Carl Fogel

Yum said:

I had experienced too many flats this summer. Can anybody recommend good
road tube (700x23) that is flat resistant ? Or, is it more to do with
tires than tubes ? Thanks.

More to do with tyres. I like Vredestein's "puncture resistant system"
used in S-Licks (26"😉 or Fortezza (700c). It's a soft layer of rubber
which is supposed to be more effective than Kevlar but doesn't increase
rolling resistance in the same way.

Keep your tyres well inflated and avoid road debris, particularly around
junctions where smashed headlamp glass collects, and on country lanes in
the hedge cutting season.

"Yum" <[email hidden]> wrote:> I had experienced too many flats this
summer. Can anybody recommend good

Quoted message said:

road tube (700x23) that is flat resistant ? Or, is it more to do with
tires than tubes ? Thanks.

I have been able to find only one brand of tires that are practically flat
resistant.
They cost 50 % extra, they weigh more and the cornering isn't optimal. I
use them on my every day commuting bike, because I don't want to be late for
work due to a flat tire. I haven't ever had a flat with these tires: "Dutch
Perfect No flat Tyre". (It's made in Holland)
The company gives a one year garantee against flats (with a few reasonable
modifications).
I don't use them on my road racer, but a friend of mine used the 25 mm
version on the Paris-Brest-Paris ride last year. Theoretically they must
have slowed him down at least at little - but surely for less than the 30
minutes I spent on flats during that ride.

For my daily commuting I use the 32 mm tire on the rear and 28 mm on the
front wheel - but you can get them even in the 22 mm version..
I paid 42 $ for each tyre - which seems expensive, but it lasts much longer
than the light weight racing tires.
I'm afraid theres is no import to the US at the moment - judging from the
company homepage: http://www.dutch-perfect.nl.

But now you know they are "out there".

Ivar of Denmark

Slime it.

I MTB 2004