Flats!

[bakerjw]

Jeesh, how many flat tires can a person get in one week! I've had 7 in the last 6 days. When I say flats I refer to bicycle flats. I'm about to pull the trigger on a Swiss DT tubeless wheelset. With tubeless tires you run a clotting liquid that virtually stops all flats. But boy oh boy have I gone through tubes and patches.

[doubloon]

Beats my record of 3 in a month.

[DKDravis]

--- gneeek ---

I guess now is not the time to tell you that my road bike (18 speed slope alu frame "racer") has never had a single flat tire in 7 years ..

Admittedly I only ride it once or twice a week, but thats around 2 x 25 miles .... Gone through more sets of tires than I can remember .. all of them Kevlar reinforced tubed tyres ... From some German manufacturer ... and not even that expensive ..

[bakerjw]

We run continental gatorskins on our tandem bike. They wear great and have yet to have a flat except when we got a pinch flat one time. For my road bike I used to use some heavy commute tires but now I just run with light ones to give better performance.

I've opted for a Swiss DT R23 Spline wheelset to run tubeless. Light weight and flat resistant. The budget committee will decide when those will be ordered.

[Marsblue]

I always ran stan's no tubes sealant in my tires. Mountain bike as tubeless setup, road bikes got it in their tubes and I even put it in tubular tires(the kind you glue on, mostly for racing). Goat heads get sealed right up and I even once pulled a piece of barbed wire from my mountain bike tire. There are a few other products that I don't have experience. Slime sucks in my experience. Mostly just showed me where to patch with the green.

[Schulze]

So now, instead of getting a flat, you'll get a flat and your bike covered in sealant.

[silencertalk]

I can't remember any flats, except when I wheeled a bike with no air in the tires and got a pinch flat.

So none while riding that I can remember.