what is a goathead?
Welcome guest, is this your first visit? Click the "Create Account" button now to join.
Results 1 to 15 of 34
Thread: Ever heard of this?
Hybrid View
-
05-15-2008, 01:27 AM #1
f/k/a Mr. S.
- Join Date
- Dec 2006
- Location
- Blessed to be all over the place!
- Posts
- 3,433
If you don't grow where you're planted, you'll never BLOOM - Will Rogers
-
05-15-2008, 02:45 AM #2
In-app purchases
- Join Date
- Sep 2007
- Location
- Uncanny Valley
- Posts
- 14,498
One of the guys I ride with in Florida has a similar thing made out of fine chain (think the weight of a medium gauge pendant chain).
Something about my new bike's geometry (or maybe I just haven't got all my handling skills back, which is likely, but I think it's the bike too), I can't wipe my rear tire with my hand. The front tire is easy enough, though - not much farther a reach than the water bottle.Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler
-
05-15-2008, 03:28 AM #3
They call me Crash
- Join Date
- Aug 2006
- Posts
- 1,011
I know something that Mr. doesn't.
Originally Posted by Mr. Silver
Though I admittedly only know about them from you ladies. a goathead is a plant bur, a thorny thing that falls off a plant in the southwest.
"Being retired from Biking...isn't that kinda like being retired from recess?" Stephen Colbert asked of Lance Armstrong
-
05-15-2008, 06:55 AM #4
gravel grindess
- Join Date
- Jul 2007
- Location
- foothills of the Ozarks aka Tornado Alley
- Posts
- 4,193
LOL! Originally Posted by silver
I know something that Mr. doesn't.
Shall we hear yet another admission from Mr. that you possess greater knowledge? 
-
05-15-2008, 09:03 AM #5
Registered User
- Join Date
- Jul 2004
- Location
- Southern California
- Posts
- 526
Those tire savers also went by the name "flint catchers". I used them years ago with sewup tires and never had a flat. I've looked for them in recent years but could never find any.
-
05-15-2008, 02:44 PM #6
Registered User
- Join Date
- Jul 2006
- Location
- Flagstaff AZ
- Posts
- 2,516
YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW! Originally Posted by Mr. Silver
Seriously, it is a little thorn like thing with numerous hooks on it that when it works into your tire it is a little hole making monster! If you live near them, you MUST slime your tires.
spoke
Reply With Quote
