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Tag: flats

  • First Bike Flat of 2013-14 School Year

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    John
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    It isn’t even officially the school year yet and I am setting up my classroom, labs, and servers and as you see here am repairing my first flat.  I picked up a small wire, ?steel belted truck tire?, but all good now.

  • Baby Powder your tires as well as your tubes

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    John
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    I may not be the last person to figure this out; however, I feel like it. I apply talc (baby powder) to my tubes to restrict pinch flats and ease all sorts of issues. And to speed finding objects in my tires I always mount the same way, the label on the tire is bisected…