I was just this morning realizing how happy I am not to have goatheads. Santa Rosa (CA) was loaded with them in the city, but I never had a problem in Annadel Park. I set my wife's 3 speed up with those super-fat thornproof tubes, which really helped. Before that, I pulled 60 goathead spikes out of a tire before I stopped counting and threw it away. I had many tires with 'stealth' goathead spikes buried in the tread. They would puncture a tube, but only showed themselves if you really bent the casing hard.
So that's another upside to living in Oregon. Philip Philip Williamson www.biketinker.com On Aug 31, 7:14 pm, jimD <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently returned from a 3 week stint in eastern Wa. (Kennewick) helping to > care for my elderly mom. > I had 3 flats in 3 weeks, all from goatheads. The good news is that the > volume of the JB greens allowed me to limp back to the house to address the > flats there. I've found 'slime' tubes are useful in a goathead laden places. > > I'm curious about those Foss tubes too. > > Here in northern Cal. I don't get 3 flats in 3 months. > -JimD > > On Aug 31, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Jeremy Till wrote: > > > > > > > > > Had a ride last weekend where I had one flat on the rear from two > > goatheads. Pulled over and replaced the tube, went to put the wheel back > > on the bike only to notice that my front tire was also going flat from 2 > > goatheads! I was kind of up a creek since i only had used my one extra > > tube and didn't have a patch kit on me. I limped back to the nearest town, > > pausing every 2 miles or so to refill the front tire. Luckily that town > > had a bike shop in it where I bought another tube and patch kit....the shop > > owner noted that it was "goathead season." All of this in 90+ degree heat. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To view this discussion on the web > > visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/rUcSCEvMobcJ. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
