Tire Liners and those Fix-A-Flat products

[tangentgirl]

Ohhhh, those guys. Them are evil.

[SnappyPix]

That's just mean.

[Kano]

Those are SSSOOO hard on puppy paws!

My Khan gets pretty sad when he finds a patch of goat heads!

I've stepped on a couple of them too, and I can understand how he feels!

BUT, I've not had another goat head flat since putting armadillos on my bike -- and I was flatting half a dozen times a ride with them. Doesn't even much matter if you've got the Slime in the tubes, since you get so many holes they don't all seal in time!

EVIL weeds!

Karen in Boise

[ehirsch83]

ok i lied, they don't line their tires- they hate liners! haha
they seal all of them. He told me to tell you to either use sealent in your tires, or to get i forgot the name of the tire. but i will ask him again and let you know. he said though that the reason why he doesn't really recommend armadillo's is because they are just a really really stiff,hard tire-making it hard to work with.

[pooks]

I accidentally rode through some broken glass last week. I may not have actually hit any of it, or much of it, it came up on me and I wasn't paying close enough attention. I'm on armadillos. I was hoping they were tough enough to take it, and since I don't have a flat I'm assuming they are.

What tire is tougher than an armadillo?

[Jenn]

Goatheads have cost us ALOT of money. Not only on our bikes, but our baby jogger.Mimitabby, AWESOME pictures, they are horrible, especially when you find one in your 14 year olds mouth, because she thought it was food!
I know DH had the hardcase tires by Bontager put on with slime tubes and then added slime on top of that, we STILL get flats Not as bad, but we do.

[Eden]

Nasty looking buggers, those thorns.
You might want to check out these tires http://schwalbetires.com/node/142/ok
my LBS showed me these things - they are about as puncture proof as you can get since they have a layer of foam in them that is probably about as thick as one of those thorns is long.... I would guess that they are not the lightest or fastest tires out there, but I would think its a whole lot slower to be fixing all of those flats....

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Goatheads have cost us ALOT of money.....they are horrible, especially when you find one in your 14 year olds mouth, because she thought it was food!

Your 14 year old thinks goatheads are FOOD?
Maybe they would like some headcheese....