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Old January 6th 09, 12:38 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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The paths by which I cycle to work always have large amounts of glass
on them. I've always tried to avoid it where I could, but there's just
too much. I've recently put on some Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres. Are
these tyres as good at resisting punctures as they claim to be? Can I
just ride through regions with bits of glass all over the place, or
should I still do my best to avoid it?
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Old January 6th 09, 02:28 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On Jan 6, 4:38*am, wrote:
The paths by which I cycle to work always have large amounts of glass
on them. I've always tried to avoid it where I could, but there's just
too much. I've recently put on some Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres. Are
these tyres as good at resisting punctures as they claim to be? Can I
just ride through regions with bits of glass all over the place, or
should I still do my best to avoid it?


Check your tires after rides to see if pieces of glass are trying to
work themselves into the tires. Remove whatever you find. If they
don't tear into the casing, you should be ok. Tuffies, like JT
suggests will offer another layer of protection.
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Old January 6th 09, 03:01 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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The paths by which I cycle to work always have large amounts of glass
on them. I've always tried to avoid it where I could, but there's just
too much. I've recently put on some Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres. Are
these tyres as good at resisting punctures as they claim to be? Can I
just ride through regions with bits of glass all over the place, or
should I still do my best to avoid it?


SM+ are the best tires I have found for flat resistance, but they are not
flat proof. I still get a flat every 2 or 3 thousand miles of city
commuting. Plenty of glass and other sharp stuff on my route, and bad
pavement.

As others have mentioned, it does help to check the tread now and then, and
remove any embedded glass.

Also, it looks like Schwalbe has updated their website recently:

http://www.schwalbetires.com/

J.


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Old January 7th 09, 01:02 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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The paths by which I cycle to work always have large amounts of glass
on them. I've always tried to avoid it where I could, but there's just
too much. I've recently put on some Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres. Are
these tyres as good at resisting punctures as they claim to be? Can I
just ride through regions with bits of glass all over the place, or
should I still do my best to avoid it?


Schwalbe Marathon Plus tires are good. I have had them on a commuter
bike; my wife uses them on her usual bike, and neither of us has ever
suffered a puncture in one of them. (I have blown off a couple of
them in the 622-40 size by overinflating.)

Since glass will still cut into the tread rubber and even into the
elastomer belt, it will deteriorate the tread even if it does not
cause punctures. It's still better to avoid running through glass
when you can, but with Marathon Plus tires I would not bother to avoid
areas of town that are glass-strewn. I'd just avoid the obvious
patches of broken glass.

By the way, isn't it either "tires and glass" or "Tyres & Glaße"? A
Tyre sounds like something made of wrought iron that you'd have a
wheelwright nail onto a wooden Wheele. Just sayin'.

Chalo
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Old January 7th 09, 01:06 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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"Chalo" wrote in message
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By the way, isn't it either "tires and glass" or "Tyres & Glaße"? A
Tyre sounds like something made of wrought iron that you'd have a
wheelwright nail onto a wooden Wheele. Just sayin'.


My bikes and car all have tyres, made of lovely rubbery stuff. The bottles
my beer comes in are glass. Up here that's with a short "a" too.


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Old January 7th 09, 01:34 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:37:15 +0100, Tosspot
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[about Schwalbe Marathons]
They are pretty bullet proof, I once rode over a beer bottle which
*exploded* under the tire with no probs


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Old January 7th 09, 03:07 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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"Chalo" wrote in message
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snip But as another user of Marathon Plus I have to agree with your general
advice to enjoy their puncture resistance but avoid actively looking for
trouble.


By the way, isn't it either "tires and glass" or "Tyres & Glaße"? A
Tyre sounds like something made of wrought iron that you'd have a
wheelwright nail onto a wooden Wheele. Just sayin'.

Chalo

As for "tyres" vs "tires", it all depends on whether the writer favours
Bringlish or USian . The national group on which a person centres his identity
will colour his spelling behaviour. In my naievety, I sometimes tire of it all
and wish I could give a blank cheque to some organisation with a programme to
check this divergence. However, any such manoeuvre to prise USians away from
their time-honoured spelling could cause offence. Your judgement might be that
Bringlish speakers are caught in a vice of slaveish thrall to a catalogue of
mediaeval usage. I fear that the two flavours of English will remain kilometres
apart. In your defence, USian speakers outnumber the rest of the English
speaking world by two to one which, however you analyse it gives you an
armour-plated licence to spell any way you jolly well please.

PH

 




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