How often do you get a flat?
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- Chasing Dreams
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On my dual circular velocity machine, I only get a puncture about once a year and I do enjoy regular jaunters with the local boys. However, watching coverage of duals between the grown men shows that there are many breeches in their steeds.
Why would this be? I fancy the PR2 delicacies but they are hardly puncture proof heavy weights.
Why would this be? I fancy the PR2 delicacies but they are hardly puncture proof heavy weights.
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Are you a 19th century British butler? I'm an English teacher and rarely encounter diction such as yours. Welcome to WW though...lots of characters around here.
On my Vittoria Open Corsa Evo CX, I think only 1 last year. But more than that when I was running the Pro Race 2s.
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Between my Conti GP4000S and MichProRace2 tires and over 3400 miles no flats. I'm sure I just jinxed myself here.
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Mottsauce wrote:Are you a 19th century British butler? I'm an English teacher and rarely encounter diction such as yours. Welcome to WW though...lots of characters around here.
HaHa! Poor dream chaser, weenies locking your post and talkin' smack.
I said 2-5 but sometimes go for a year without one. Then again, I'll get 10 in 24hrs once in a long while.
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Dir Sir
I am posting this in the fondest regard that you shall be able to rectify an uncertainty of mine. While in perusal of the morning periodical, I stumbled upon your interestingly phrased article on page three, and once again on page fourteen, in the road and cycle chat sections respectively. Could you please help me out with the issue of...wtf?
Thankyou kindly good sir, your speedy acquiescence to this request will be greatly appreciated in the resolution of my mental vexation.
Hoping you are in good health, kind regards,
Sir Andrew Christopherson-Sheeny-McTawp that fourth.
....It depends on tire quality, environmental issues (like the prevelance of thorns close to the roadway), road quality, kilometers traveled, rider + bike weight (and weight distribution), frequency of rotation of tires/tubes from front/back old/new tires and tubes, type of tube and tire, the presumption of consistent correct installation of the tire and tube and even possibly the local temperature, if we are starting to go down to finer issues. Just curious as to why you were asking?
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- Chasing Dreams
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Mottsauce wrote:Are you a 19th century British butler? I'm an English teacher and rarely encounter diction such as yours. Welcome to WW though...lots of characters around here.
I'm pretty sure I've been around longer than you have here. I've been lurking for about 8 years now.
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Dir Sir
I am posting this in the fondest regard that you shall be able to rectify an uncertainty of mine. While in perusal of the morning periodical, I stumbled upon your interestingly phrased article on page three, and once again on page fourteen, in the road and cycle chat sections respectively. Could you please help me out with the issue of...wtf?
Thankyou kindly good sir, your speedy acquiescence to this request will be greatly appreciated in the resolution of my mental vexation.
Hoping you are in good health, kind regards,
Sir Andrew Christopherson-Sheeny-McTawp that fourth.
....It depends on tire quality, environmental issues (like the prevelance of thorns close to the roadway), road quality, kilometers traveled, rider + bike weight (and weight distribution), frequency of rotation of tires/tubes from front/back old/new tires and tubes, type of tube and tire, the presumption of consistent correct installation of the tire and tube and even possibly the local temperature, if we are starting to go down to finer issues. Just curious as to why you were asking?
Frankie was mad. Mad for power, so he decided to pick on me. I still haven't found out if liposuction is considered doping, even after googling it.
I'm asking because the pros seem to get so many flats in their races that it would make more sense for them to run more durable tires than those cheap tubulars.
I'm wondering if other people get flats as often as the pros do and don't you get frustrated by all the occurrences. I have only ever gotten one flat while out riding my bike and that was because I was riding on worn down tires. Every other time I have had a slow leak and my tires flatted while not being used. I can count the total number of flats in all my riding on my hands!
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Pro's...cheap...tubulars
I stand by my wtf
.....this isn't the right kind of website for a poe either.
I stand by my wtf
.....this isn't the right kind of website for a poe either.
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I like you Chasing Dreams because you're a tick, and I like bugs (^_^).
I get most flats in race conditions or low light levels. Once I had six flats in one hour from a horrible road I shouldn't have been riding on (glass & nails everywhere). I also tend to crash in the same conditions (>_<)' Every once and awhile you'll get a freak puncture cruising on a smooth road (screw or something), maybe you are lucky.
Does not mater how cheap your tubes are. A pit bull can run up on you at any time and rip your wheel apart.
I get most flats in race conditions or low light levels. Once I had six flats in one hour from a horrible road I shouldn't have been riding on (glass & nails everywhere). I also tend to crash in the same conditions (>_<)' Every once and awhile you'll get a freak puncture cruising on a smooth road (screw or something), maybe you are lucky.
Does not mater how cheap your tubes are. A pit bull can run up on you at any time and rip your wheel apart.
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Had two last year.
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Chasing Dreams wrote:I'm pretty sure I've been around longer than you have here. I've been lurking for about 8 years now.
That is funny. The forum just opened on the 11th of june 2002
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Not the future, the past! Examine the quality of his language! (I'm now living in fear of Frankie's avatar attacking me while I sleep...because of the time difference that is, not because of creepy sneeking into my house at night - Frankie's cool )
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