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Old July 6th 19, 08:48 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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On 06/07/2019 20:05, Bret Cahill wrote:
I average a small puncture every 10 - 20 miles and stopping
more than a few minutes is not acceptable. It's better than
patches even working back home.

Are you sure you have suitable tyres?

In the last 3500 miles I have had 3 punctures. Long term average
is probably about 500 miles.


He lives in a desert with cactus spines everywhere.


Cacti are the problem in Tucson.

The major problem here are goat heads, tribulus terrestris, torrito
in Mexico.

They came from the Mideast or some other place. It's a real problem
if livestock eat them.

You rarely get just one goat head. Usually you run over a patch and
get 3 - 8 at a time, half of them puncturing the tube.

Farm workers pick them up next to the fields and track them into
parking lots so you can get flats even if you stay on the pavement.

The only good thing about goat heads is they often stay stuck between
the tire lugs for miles plugging the leak as well as pin pointing the
location of the puncture.


Oh well, wet tyres picking up flints that work their way in aren't so
bad after all.
I was interested to see how they fix tubeless car tyres. No need to take
the tyre off the rim, push a hollow needle through the hole then a gun
pushes a mushroom plug through it.
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