I was riding 70 to 100 miles per week back then with 3 to 5 bikes, most on the commuter and allrounder, mostly on pavement but say 1/3 dirt.
Oh: One big exception to the "flatting fast tires": Big Apples. They rolled surprisingly well for their bulk, but got perhaps 1/3 of the flats per unit distance of the other tires; in order of flat-prone-ness, ie from more flats to less flats per unit: 26 X 1.25 Paselas, non-TG (and yet for a number of years these were my commuting tires and got the most miles); Conti GPs, Michelin Pro Races, Specialised Turbos (yep, fewer flats than the Paselas); 26 X 1.35 and 700C X 35 Kojaks; 26 and 29" 2.35" Big Apples). On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 5:06 PM Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Each to his or her own. It depends on what you prefer. Many ride stiff > tires that don't flat; pre-sealant, I preferred -- no, really, really much > preferred -- to fix over 150 flats per year (2 boxes of 100 Remas per > year, more or less) instead of riding tires that felt slow. > > Fortunately, modern sealants even here in goatheadland allow one to ride > the lighest, thinnest tires with hardly any flats and resulting pleasure: > in tubes for higher pressures, tubeless for lower pressures.* > > Of course, we get very little rain; and also, 2 spare tubes per bike > usually let me get home before I had to break out the patch kit (also one > for each bike); plus of course top quality pumps. Again, each to his own; > this was my own. > > * For me, an unscientific but still empirical division at about 45 or 50 > psi. > > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 2:51 PM Tom Wyland <tomwyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Should I feel bad about my 780g Schwalbe Marathon Greenguard tires? Sure >> keeps the flats away when riding on the street. >> >> -- >> 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 view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f262b18e-5c91-40a7-8ef0-ff9bcf24b1abn%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f262b18e-5c91-40a7-8ef0-ff9bcf24b1abn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfguUXjkYdYCSa1iTTaaYjkvT_Cx_Vwdnv-G%2BmX3hXtVPeg%40mail.gmail.com.
