xxamr_corpxx said:
Bah! I got a puncture the second time I used my gatorskins. It was a snakebite :
Moral of the story - A nice tyre means nothing if you still have that crappy plastic rim tape.
Arent snakebites due to the tube getting pinched between tyre and rim, rather than due to a crappy rim tape?
I had a bad spate of luck with Rubino pros oevr a period of 2 weeks, where I had 3 punctures. But I have ridden about 500km on it since then, and no punctures, plus they seem to wear rather well ... no obvious signs of wear. In fact if I were to wash the tyres with soap, they would look like new.
Currently using GP4000s, and to me they seem to handle better(than the Rubinos, and Micheline Pro2s). No punctures so far, but its only been abt 250km old.
Michelin Pro2 grip really well, but they seem to want to pick up embedded little stones, and a bit of glass, but no punctures on them either. I inspect them when it occurs to me, and pick out the embedded stones, and glass.
So perhaps like other posters have mentioned, maintenance might be the key to unecessary punctures. But on the road, there just is no certain gaurantee against flats.