Comments on: Flats http://www.dirtragmag.com/blogarific/flats/ Dirt Rag Staff Blog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:59:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: aptosdh http://www.dirtragmag.com/blogarific/flats/#comment-7 aptosdh Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:03:51 +0000 http://www.dirtragmag.com/blogarific/flats/#comment-7 I must have changed a thousand flat tires. I hate patching them, the way my road biker dad showed me when I was a kid. I usually go on long rides without a spare tube, patch kit or pump. I've walked twenty miles home too many tiimes. When I bring all that gear, I never get flats. My second mountain bike, an old Diamond Back Topanga, never had a flat. I bought it used ten years ago and rode it all over California, worry-free. I figured it must have thornproof tubes. It weighed a ton. I rode it into the ground, and finally I removed the tires. Dig: thornproof tubes, with tire liners AND green slime in the tubes ! I'm rebouilding the bike as a singlespeed; new rims and tires, but I'm gonna use those old tubes. I must have changed a thousand flat tires. I hate patching them, the way my road biker dad showed me when I was a kid. I usually go on long rides without a spare tube, patch kit or pump. I’ve walked twenty miles home too many tiimes. When I bring all that gear, I never get flats.

My second mountain bike, an old Diamond Back Topanga, never had a flat. I bought it used ten years ago and rode it all over California, worry-free. I figured it must have thornproof tubes. It weighed a ton. I rode it into the ground, and finally I removed the tires. Dig: thornproof tubes, with tire liners AND green slime in the tubes ! I’m rebouilding the bike as a singlespeed; new rims and tires, but I’m gonna use those old tubes.

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