I think goat head thorns are in the 3 to 8mm range. The marathon smartguard blue layer is 5mm add some tread thickness and casing and I think they have a chance against even goatheads. Whether or not you want to ride tires like that is a whole different question. Some folks don't seem to mind the things others abhor about them. You pays your money and you takes your chances. The Jobst solution seems to be something like don't ride through where the vines grow, and get changes made that discourage their growth. "Goat heads do not have feet of their own and do not travel far from
the plant unless someone travels through their midst. I think if you take a close look at these seed pods, you'll see they are made of highly durable strong yet pliable wood. Therefore, getting one or two of them is a rarity and if you ride over a plant you will pick up at least a dozen thorns. If your tire-saver gets even half of them you haven't gained anything. On the other hand I have seen people sitting at the roadside pulling them out of their tires and discarding them onto the street. Thanks! " see http://yarchive.net/bike/puncture_vine.html for more On Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:25:13 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Those might resist goatheads -- not certain from the photo -- but they > look as if they would be death to ride. > > Several of the local remedies: best: Stan's, tubeless for low pressure > tires. Worse: Thick tire liners; the local roadies, pre-Stan's, would cut > the bead of a used racing tire and use it as a liner. Worst: heavy "thorn > proof" tubes with a half gallon of Slime inside heavy duty tires with an > added liner. The riding message those send is "take up curling". > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:00 PM, ted <ted....@comcast.net <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Steve asks "... is there *any* pneumatic tire, ..., that would be >> usable in goathead country without sealant?" >> I think the super stout marathon variants with a thick layer of something >> under the tread would suffice. >> e.g. >> http://www.wiggle.co.uk/schwalbe-marathon-plus-smartguard-city-tyre-2013/ >> >> -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > > ************************************* > * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to > never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from > it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* > * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to > look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind > it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into > somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your > daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is > all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was > any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, > because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where > in your time and your body can they be?* > * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. > "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where > Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of > you can find it?” -- *Flannery O'Connor,* Wise Blood * > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
