Using Tip Top Original Patches

[[email protected]]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:36:40 -0600, [email protected]
wrote:

>On 18 Jun 2004 13:23:41 GMT, [email protected]
>(MikeYankee) wrote:
>
>>>no-flat-tire streak now stands at 49 rides
>>
>>I'll probably go out and flat today, but haven't had a flat since Aug. 8 last
>>year, 156 rides and 5883 miles ago -- my longest streak ever.
>>
>>Before that, I must have had a dozen flats in two months, including a memorable
>>five on one ride. Roads around here are pretty clean (no goatheads in NY
>>state).
>>
>>I ride normal tires, by the way (Axial Pros or cheap Vittorias, depending on
>>the bike), with decent ultralite tubes (Kenda of Salsa when I can find them,
>>sometimes Torelli or Vittoria, NEVER Michelin or Performance).
>>
>>
>>Mike Yankee
>>
>>(Address is munged to thwart spammers.
>>To reply, delete everything after "com".)
>
>Dear Mike,
>
>Ultralite tubes? New York sounds more like batting practice
>(you lucky devil) than real pitching from goatheads.
>
>When looking for its first spokesman, the Mr. Coffee company
>insisted on streaks involving nine-inning games against
>major-league pitchers.
>
>Your 5,883-mile streak for 156 rides makes New York's feeble
>flat-tire threat look even more minor-league when converted
>to 392 flat-free Fogel-standard 15-mile rides. (Good God,
>which wears out first, your tire or your tube?)
>
>No, I can't see you edging me out for the endorsement
>contract. The Mr. Coffee company is understandably not
>interested in using tee-ball batting-averages to push its
>product--ground beans is their motto, not boiled leaves.
>
>Of course, the Celestial Seasonings company may be looking
>for someone to sell more Earl Grey tea, but don't shave your
>head yet.
>
>J.-L. Picard

Aaaargh!

Even as I typed, my rear tire was quietly oozing green
anti-flat slime around a minute rock chip stuck in a tiny
cut from yesterday's ride.

At least I had the long-forgotten pleasure of peeling a
tube out from the inside of a tire. Normally, my tubes don't
stay in the tire long enough to do whatever makes them stick
to the interior.

My current flat-free streak now stands at one ride.

Carl Fogel

 

[MikeYankee]

>Ultralite tubes?

Yep.

I'm not a weight weenie, but can fit two UL tubes in my saddle bag along with
other stuff; can't do that with regular weight tubes.

The good ones, properly installed, work fine. The non-good ones are worthless
****.

BTW, the weak point seems to be at the base of the stem. I protect all my
tubes with little dime-size washers cut from old tube material; these go around
the valve stem.

>Your 5,883-mile streak for 156 rides...

After a spin on the fixie today, it's up to 5921 miles in 157 outings.


Mike Yankee

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[Werehatrack]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:14:33 +0100, "Pete Biggs"
<ppear{remove_fruit}@biggs.tc> wrote:

>Phil Brown wrote:
>>> Snipping edges of cellophane in advance makes it easy to peel it off
>>> afterwards.
>>
>> The cellophane has a split in the middle to allow easy removal.
>> Phil Brown
>
>The snipping tip is for other brands of patches that don't have
>slips/perforations. It works.

Am I the only one who just leaves it in place if it doesn't come off
easily? That doesn't seem to cause a problem...

 

[[email protected]]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 22:12:56 GMT, Werehatrack
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Am I the only one who just leaves it in place if it doesn't come off
>easily? That doesn't seem to cause a problem...

Dear Werehatrack,

I pity the apprentice mohel from rec.bris.tech who
accidentally stumbles into this thread at your post.

Carl Fogel

 

[Stuart Black]

[email protected] (MikeYankee) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> >no-flat-tire streak now stands at 49 rides
>
> I'll probably go out and flat today, but haven't had a flat since Aug. 8 last
> year, 156 rides and 5883 miles ago -- my longest streak ever.
>
> Before that, I must have had a dozen flats in two months, including a memorable
> five on one ride. Roads around here are pretty clean (no goatheads in NY
> state).
>
> I ride normal tires, by the way (Axial Pros or cheap Vittorias, depending on
> the bike), with decent ultralite tubes (Kenda of Salsa when I can find them,
> sometimes Torelli or Vittoria, NEVER Michelin or Performance).
>
>
> Mike Yankee
>
> (Address is munged to thwart spammers.
> To reply, delete everything after "com".)

Our tires are manly tires. The casings are made from Rhino hide and
the belts are made from the armour plates from WWII battlewagons -
just peeled off the ship and laid into the casing. Even then the
goatheads will flatten the tube which is made from the hide of a
buffalo - whole thing. Stitch the nose to the tail and inflate! That
guy that bulldozed Grandby wasn't mad at the town, he just when crazy
trying to develop a better tire against goatheads. Half inch steel,
4" of concrete and another half inch of steel and still the goathead
got through. Put him right over the edge!

Anyway that's what I hear.

Stuart Black

 

[John Dacey]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:36:18 -0600, [email protected] wrote:

>Aaaargh!
>
>Even as I typed, my rear tire was quietly oozing green
>anti-flat slime
>
>At least I had the long-forgotten pleasure of peeling a
>tube out from the inside of a tire. Normally, my tubes don't
>stay in the tire long enough to do whatever makes them stick
>to the interior.
>
>My current flat-free streak now stands at one ride.

"Aha! Talk about trying to cure flats with *****-water such a blame
fool way as that! Why, that ain't a-going to do any good. You got to
go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's
a *****-water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the
stump and jam your hand in and say:

'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorn,
*****-water, *****-water, swaller this thorn,'

and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then
turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody.
Because if you speak the charm's busted."

T. Sawyer


-------------------------------
John Dacey
Business Cycles, Miami, Florida
http://www.businesscycles.com
Now in our twenty-first year.
Our catalog of track equipment: eighth year online
-------------------------------

 

[[email protected]]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:45:28 -0400, John Dacey
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:36:18 -0600, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>Aaaargh!
>>
>>Even as I typed, my rear tire was quietly oozing green
>>anti-flat slime
>>
>>At least I had the long-forgotten pleasure of peeling a
>>tube out from the inside of a tire. Normally, my tubes don't
>>stay in the tire long enough to do whatever makes them stick
>>to the interior.
>>
>>My current flat-free streak now stands at one ride.
>
>"Aha! Talk about trying to cure flats with *****-water such a blame
>fool way as that! Why, that ain't a-going to do any good. You got to
>go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's
>a *****-water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the
>stump and jam your hand in and say:
>
> 'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorn,
> *****-water, *****-water, swaller this thorn,'
>
>and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then
>turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody.
>Because if you speak the charm's busted."
>
>T. Sawyer
>
>
>-------------------------------
>John Dacey
>Business Cycles, Miami, Florida
>http://www.businesscycles.com
>Now in our twenty-first year.
>Our catalog of track equipment: eighth year online
>-------------------------------

Dear John,

Actually, it's what comes of handling snake skins:

" . . .what did you say when I fetched in the snake-skin
that I found on the top of the ridge day before yesterday?
You said it was the worst bad luck in the world to touch a
snake-skin with my hands. Well, here's your bad luck! We've
raked in all this truck and eight dollars besides. I wish
we could have some bad luck like this every day, Jim."

It was only a modest bullsnake and not a cast-off skin, but
it was wiggling its tail in such a seductive manner a few
days ago under a juniper that I had to grab it and see what
would happen. It hissed right away, and a few days later so
did my inner tube.

H. Finn

 

[Werehatrack]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:19:14 -0600, [email protected] wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 22:12:56 GMT, Werehatrack
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>Am I the only one who just leaves it in place if it doesn't come off
>>easily? That doesn't seem to cause a problem...
>
>Dear Werehatrack,
>
>I pity the apprentice mohel from rec.bris.tech who
>accidentally stumbles into this thread at your post.
>
>Carl Fogel

And to that, there is only one reply.

Oy.

 

[Tom Sherman]

MikeYankee wrote:

>>Ultralite tubes?
>
>
> Yep.
>
> I'm not a weight weenie, but can fit two UL tubes in my saddle bag along with
> other stuff; can't do that with regular weight tubes....

What a wimpy bag! I managed to get my seat bag [1] up to a gross weight
of 14-pounds on one ride.

[1] <http://www.ransbikes.com/Commuter.htm>.

--
Tom Sherman – Quad City Area