curious how many tubes you guys have replaced this year alone? 5 bucks a tube starts to add up. I have replaced zero on my own bike. When someone use one of my tubes to repair their flat. I take it off of them at the end of the ride. I call it the tube of shame. your tires should never flat while MTBing.
Tube count for me = 1 tube, about 12 years ago, when I used a Panaracer Smoke rear tire that had thin sidewalls. Pinching wore a hole through the sidewall, and the tube too. Replaced with an exact clone -- the IRC Piranha Pro -- which had the same tread pattern but stiffer sidewalls, and have not had a single flat since. Nor on any of our other bikes. As I've said several times, we don't have very rugged terrain here (no sharp rocks and such) so I think that really helps us to run 30 to 35 psi in tubed tires. No sharp hits on the wheels = no pinch flats.
Ok so fact number one - Contact patch given the same pressure and over bike/ride weight is the same.
Eh? What's that ya say Sonny? |:-{)~ I can't hear ya!
Gee, if using all capital letters in a post is considered shouting, then what does 24pt font mean? Using a bull horn? No need to yell at us, Josh.
We may be older and obstinate (well, at least Jim is
) and slow to change our ways at times
, but we're not hard of hearing yet.
Cheers!