On Sep 15, 4:39 pm, Jorg Lueke <
[email protected]> wrote:
> After my stock Bontrager select tires started to wear out after 2000
> miles I got some Specialized Armadillos mainly because that's what the
> LBS near me had in a 28. Within two two weeks a single piece of glass
> had penetrated the tire and had rendered it useless. It's probably
> coincidence but I'm still going to look for soe of those stock
> Bontragers.
For a long time, I was only buying kevlar-belted tires for fear of
flats. But once I started riding over 1000 miles a year, I started
getting flats anyway. So I quit caring whether a tire was kevlar
belted or not,
By my reckoning, every flat I've ever had, bar one, was with a kevlar-
belted tire, The non-kevlar one was a Specialized Fat Boy. The Kevlar
ones were Pasela Tourguards (In fairness to those, I've probably put
more miles on the three or four sets I've gone through than anything
else), Conti GP4Season, Specialized TriSport Flak Jackets, and some
Vittoria sewup and can't remember the model name of at the moment.
I'm jinxing it by posting this, but I haven't had a flat in probably
2500 miles (back in March, maybe?), riding a mixture of Paselas (non-
TG), Michelin Lithions, IRC Redstorms, Clement Futura sewups, and some
really old Wolber clinchers.
Not saying kevlar belts contributed to my flats, but they certainly
didn't stop them. Risk compensation. maybe? Without kevlar belts, I'm
more aware of what I'm riding over? I don't know.