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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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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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wrote in message ... 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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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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"Chalo" wrote in message
... wrote: 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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On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:37:15 +0100, Tosspot
wrote: [about Schwalbe Marathons] They are pretty bullet proof, I once rode over a beer bottle which *exploded* under the tire with no probs SWEET |
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"Chalo" wrote in message ... wrote: 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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