Big Apples are more resistant to goatheads than any other tire I've used; they are not proof against them but they are something like, roughly, 1:4 for Paselas. On dirt I've ridden through goathead patches without being scathed, tho' on pavement thorns will eventually be driven in past the belt.
I did have a goathead proof tireset once on a CyclePro early '80s MTB I bought at GW. It had some kind of slick 1.95s with a belt and "thornproof" tubes that weighed as much as the tires. I rode it through about a mile of goathead vine on the upper I-40 trail -- paved, which will push the thorns in more effectively than dirt will -- just south of Eubank and came back with, literally, hundreds of thorns embedded in the tires, which I flicked off in showers. No air loss after a week. But the combination of wooden tires and half-inch-thick tubes was so deadly that it would, seriously, make me give up cycling were they all that was available. On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is there anything short of tank treads that is resistant to goat heads? > > > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html -- 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.
