It held air

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.

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.

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?

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.

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:45:43 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

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.

Dear Chris,

There's a difference between "getting home about half the time" and
"getting home _in_ about half the time."

As I explained, about half the time, I get home without having to stop
and fix a flat--I notice the leak the next day before I leave, which
was how this thread began.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

In article
,
wrote:

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.

You are on a slippery slope. Turn back while you can.
Otherwise you will be paying $35 US or more each for 25
mm skins, and blasting around those turns.

--
Michael Press