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What tires do you run? That'll happen to me unless I run touring tires. With Schwalbe Marathons front and back, I never get flats.
by pkulak 7y ago
What tires do you run? That'll happen to me unless I run touring tires. With Schwalbe Marathons front and back, I never get flats.
- sbierwagen 7y agoContinental Top Contact II 37mm front, Continental GP Urban 35mm rear. (Rear fender has less clearance)
- rconti 7y agoYou can see my (lengthy) post here about my experience with belt drive, but I was CONSTANTLY getting flats on my Ghost; tried the tires it came with, added tire liners, added slime tubes, nothing worked well until I got the (heavy as a tank) Schwalbe Marathons. Now I want to get the slime tubes out but don't want to remove the tire to do so. But yeah, another vote for "not changing your own tires isn't really an option". Even though its virtually impossible to change tires 'in the field' on my ghost.
- entee 7y agoThere are also very tough plastic liners you can put between the tire and the inner tube. At some point picked up a 1 cm cut in the the tire that this inner layer not only prevented a puncture but kept the whole tire/tube/wheel together until I noticed it by happenstance weeks later. Search for Mr. Tuffy liner but there are others.
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y agoTried them, felt bad, was harder to drive. The same goes for stuff like Schwalbe Marathon. When i look back into the times where i bicycled more, i wonder how i managed with the tires which had just a thin mesh of wires embedded? I feel like the modern stuff has more planned obsolescence built in. Tubeless makes no sense economically to me, so i go with a small can of breakdown spray.