Using Tip Top Original Patches

[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

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

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