"Are you my mummy?"Froze said:
7 years no flats? Either you don't ride many miles or you live in an area with very pristine streets which I've never seen anywhere.doctorold said:
Froze said:
I use to use those Armadillo's too and I had one flat in about 15,000 miles but that was due to a very worn out tire, but I still carried the essentials to fix a flat. I like to know what kind of tires he's using.Mr. Beanz said:Depends on what he means by "thousands of miles". One year I did over 7300 miles (2005). I did a lot of riding in the mountains too preparing for Ride Around the Bear century. Since I was doing lots of training miles I used a good old fashioned Specialized Armadillo (not that race version ****). The Armadillo was so stiff and heavy that I could it could stand in the middle of the room by itself. :lol:
I wore it down so much that it looked like it had a solid red strip down the center of the tread. I did about 4,000 miles on it with no flat.
SO if this guy claims years and thousands of miles, it could be true. Some people do 1,000 miles per year and over a period of 3 years, that would make his claim true.
Actually, the roads around here suck. I try to watch my path. I keep my tires pumped. It's a crazy streak that I know has to end soon. I am riding between 2500 and 4500 miles per year. The last several years I have taken some months off due to international travel otherwise my yearly average would be 500-1000 miles more per year. But it's stupid to think I pack stuff to fix a flat and have never had to use it. I could be saving some weight by leaving it home! Btw, I am running Continental Four Seasons 28s.Froze said:
You watch your path? LOL. Come on, there is a lot of debris on the road that cause flats that the human eye never sees, or you're going too fast to make a correction to avoid it, or you avoid it with the front wheel but hit it with the rear wheel which is how it usually happens which explains why most flats are on the rear. Having ridden on Conti 4 seasons they're nothing special when it comes to flat resistance. I've been riding for over 40 years as well as others I know, and we all, including most on this forum, watch our paths and watch for debris, yet we all get flats, so either you've been extremely lucky or you're yanking our chains, and if it's luck then it's going to run out and you'll be without the tools to fix it...of course you could whip out the old cell phone and call your mommy..doctorold said:
Yes, watch your path. Some folks ride in bike lanes that are full of debris. I don't. I will ignore the bike lanes and ride the car lanes when it's bad and return to the bike lanes when they are relatively clean. Lucky? Probably a bit. But I've never ridden without a spare tube and cartridge. But I also rode for two years on Bontragers and two years on Vittorio Rubino Slicks and had no flats on those (with almost 6000 miles on the Vittorios). I will disagree with your opinion on the 4 Seasons. Met a guy at NAHBS at the Conti booth who also had gone over two years without flats on those tires. So what's the secret? Dunno. No chain pulling but believe what you will.Froze said:
What do you think the carbon tax is all about?"Are you my mummy?"
Seriously though, it's always been a pretty big fear of mine that sooner or later some government somewhere is going to institute a tax on the air we breath. I know it's stupid but almost everything else has a tax on it...this could be the next one on the list.
