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On Apr 3, 7:53 am, Colin Campbell wrote:
wrote: Yesterday, I noticed a trace of green Slime in a hole in my rear tire. But the tire was holding air, so I told myself that it was just left-over slime from a previous flat, not from a new puncture. Today, the tire still held air, but my pre-flight check forced me to revise my theory: http://i25.tinypic.com/2mzk66f.jpg http://i29.tinypic.com/2j1r690.jpg The pump and gauge aren't attached to the valve--the pump handle was just a handy stand to hang the wheel. The tire probably would have worked fine, but I pulled the tube for patching, put in another, and chalked up my 14th flat for 2008. Cheers, Carl Fogel Boy, you bettah find yo'self a road to ride on! Fourteen flats in 93 days - congratulations. No wait, I think I mean commiseration. Carl needs to hire some folks to get out on bikes and ride his route. Sweepers. |
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On Apr 4, 11:45 am, wrote:
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 05:26:28 -0700 (PDT), wrote: I can't believe they actually doubled your ride time, but I'd be I can't figure out where that "doubled ride time" came from. In your initial response to my first post in this thread, you said: "I'm willing to put up with a few drops of slime in exchange for getting home about half the time..." Even when I read it, I assumed that was likely hyperbolic, but you *did* also say that "[Your] times improved markedly when I switched to Slime tubes." I just wondered if you have any numbers. Back before I "forgot" to reinstall my cyclocomputer, I knew my trip times pretty well from memory. Man, I don't miss those days at all. |
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On Apr 4, 7:14 pm, Mark
wrote: Oh, I know, I know! It helps avoid falling down and going boom. Yeah, especially when the roads are covered with sand. Say, it almost sounds like I'm bitter about something, huh? |
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On Apr 5, 11:49 am, wrote:
When I switched to Slime tubes from Tuffies and thick thorn-resistant tubes on 01-08-2000, my average speed rose from 18.87 mph for the previous ~350 rides to 19.86 mph... A whole buck. Eeenteresting. Thanks for that. As for traction, I'd be surprised if a commuter could notice any difference due to Tuffy strips. I have to wonder. I went down on a concrete bike path last Spring. It was sandy and rainy. The sharp left curve comes at the end of a steep downhill that sends the path under a highway. I had a Michelin Transworld City on the front. I had a Tuffy installed, but I'm more suspicious of the tire; it was a "puncture resistant" flavor with a kevlar strip beneath the tread, giving the whole tire a distinctly ovoid cross-section. The tread had long vertical sipes about 2-3mm wide and deep. I swear I could hear the thing crawling when I'd go around corners. Now, I'm not a cornering madman. You will GIS in vain for an image of me tilted at 35 degrees on some winding mountain road. (And my bike is red, not yellow; hey, maybe that gets me my 1MPH back?) But I'm convinced in my lizard brain that the sipes AND the kevlar AND the Tuffy can't have been goodness. |
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