I'm growing ever more appreciative of the (apparently swept, manicured, delicately textured, hallowed) paths I ride. Since I started riding 3 years ago, I've had 4 flats, I think. One was a spoke poking through the rim tape on the most shoddily assembled wheel I've ever seen with an obviously cut-rate rim. Two were due to mounting errors (mea culpa) as I learned how to (not) use tire levers. The final one was a Pasela's tumorous-subsequently-exploding gumwall, about 9 months ago. That was my last Pasela; I'd already had three that developed bulgy-bubble gumwalls in a few hundred miles that I caught before they exploded. Shame, because those Paselas were the only tire I've ever used that rode noticeably better than any other tire I've used. I think it was the relative roundness? Now I use $15 Kendas which ride just like the other non-Paselas I've ever used and which I can mount/unmount without tools. Good-to-very-good. Not great. They last maybe only 2,000 miles before the gumwalls start fraying. But hey they cost only $15 delivered! My next bike will be shod with Vittoria Randonneur Hypers, about which I've heard good and bad. We'll see. But I haven't had a traditional, standard, run-of-the-mill, apparently everyday, I-ran-over-something-which-poked-a-hole-in-my-tube flat. That's over 10,000 miles. And, yes... I now expect to have two on the way home tonight. Probably goatheads flown in from California. Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean who recently read his son's latest favorite novel, The Lost Hero, which has scenes in/around Walnut Creek, CA
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