I have the original tires on my Noco that i bought in 1990 or 91. I'm pushing my luck.:-)
Dave On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > frank theriault wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Ken Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> knarF wrote >>> ...snip >>> >>> ...snip >>>> I love the small life preservers attached to his fork.... >>> I thought they were tires/tubes folded over & wrapped for protection. >> >> That makes infinitely more sense than life preservers <smacks self on >> forehead>. >> >> I've never seen tires folded and wrapped that way, but obviously one >> needs to carry one's own spares. I'd have figured he'd use foldable >> tires (that can fold much smaller than that) but that may be an older >> photo, or maybe there's a reason he doesn't like foldables. >> >> Life preservers? Sheesh! > > When I'm going be riding more than a few miles from home I carry an > extra tire, folded the same way in a front pannier. Fits nicely. St. > Sheldon has a little video explaining how to do it. > http://www.sheldonbrown.com/video/tire-folding.html > > I've also folded them this way whenever I ride the bike over to the LBS > to buy new rubber. FWIW, I don't have any red toe straps, so I guess > I'm pushing my luck. :) > > -- > Scott Loveless > New Cumberland, PA > http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
