Flatlander
08-06-2006, 04:23 PM
My husband keeps getting flats, and I keep fixing them. I haven't minded much, since I want the practice fixing them quickly, in case I get one during a race. However, I am about to reach the point where it isn't fun to fix one every day.
The odd thing is that I do more mileage than he does. The only place he rides is to th gym or his office on campus. I ride these same routes just as often and never get flats.
He has brand new tires, at my suggestion, but that hasn't stopped the flats.
The punctures are almost always on the inside of the tube--the side next to the rim. I thought that maybe it was something to do with his rim, but today I was fixing one of his flats when he wanted to go to the gym so I took my wheel off my bike and put it on his. He rides it to the gym, comes back ouside and it is flat. So he walks his bike home and shows me the tire.
Mind you, this wheel had just gone 32 flat-free miles not more than a couple of hours ago, and a couple of hundred more miles previously, so I can't imagine that it is a pinch flat at this point. And, since he has now flatted on my rim, I don't think it is his tires or rims causing it.
I take it outside to work on it and happen to notice that his other tire is flat, too. That's 3 flats in one day, and he hasn't ridden the bike more than a mile.
What the heck is going on? Anyone have any suggetions about why he might be getting so many flats?
The odd thing is that I do more mileage than he does. The only place he rides is to th gym or his office on campus. I ride these same routes just as often and never get flats.
He has brand new tires, at my suggestion, but that hasn't stopped the flats.
The punctures are almost always on the inside of the tube--the side next to the rim. I thought that maybe it was something to do with his rim, but today I was fixing one of his flats when he wanted to go to the gym so I took my wheel off my bike and put it on his. He rides it to the gym, comes back ouside and it is flat. So he walks his bike home and shows me the tire.
Mind you, this wheel had just gone 32 flat-free miles not more than a couple of hours ago, and a couple of hundred more miles previously, so I can't imagine that it is a pinch flat at this point. And, since he has now flatted on my rim, I don't think it is his tires or rims causing it.
I take it outside to work on it and happen to notice that his other tire is flat, too. That's 3 flats in one day, and he hasn't ridden the bike more than a mile.
What the heck is going on? Anyone have any suggetions about why he might be getting so many flats?