How Many punchers do you get?

[Aggie_Ama]

Veronica runs slime on her road bike. I run Specialized Armadillo (Heavy tires) on my bike because I am slow, who cares about a little extra weight? I am even slower at changing a flat.

Make sure you are putting proper air in the tire. When my tires were worn (and there is no magical distance/time for a tire) I started flatting like crazy. Check your rims as everyone has said too. Good luck, flats are no fun!

[LittleBird]

Thank you for all the replies, I always check both rims to see if there is any grit or anything else that may be lurking there. The roads where I live aren't very smooth, there are allot of stones(sometimes quite big) and pot holes so I have been trying to keep my distance from the edge but then you have to worry about drivers shouting obscenity's at you for being too over.

Coz I can I don't live in Birmingham so I can't really give advice on where to ride but you can definitely be sure to find some nice hills here in the UK

[tzvia]

Check the rim tape. I kept getting flats all of the sudden- I wasn't even riding, just pumping up the tire- and could not find anything causing it. Finally I took a hard look at the tube- the holes were on the rim side! Found that the rimstrip (ROX Ultralight, looks almost like tape) had stretched into some of the spoke holes to a point where it had exposed the edge of the hole which cut the tube! Shoot. It had wrecked a brand new Vittoria lightweight tube . Fixed it with Velox rimstrip; so much for that lightweight stuff-Velox rules.