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SpinSkins bike tire liners
Alan Georges:
I keep meaning to get around to writing this review. Like every time I jump on my CX bike to go ride the glass-strewn seawall and bridge route along the coast here, and I think "wow, it's been eight months since I've had a flat, I should write a review." To put this into perspective, I was having a flat about once every two weeks before I put these tire liners in. So, yeah, these things work like a charm. I'm using the less-expensive "Duro" version. At $35, they're not cheap, but I've more than made up for that in not buying patches and tubes, not to mention time and aggravation. They add a little weight, but with the short-tread offroad tires I'm running it's hard to tell any difference. In a nutshell, the bike rolls the same as before. It just rolls a lot longer between flats.
To recap: Eight months with no flats, up from a flat every two weeks. Light and thin enough that for non-race tires it's hard-to-impossible to tell that they're in there. Not cheap, but they've paid for themselves already. For post-TEOTWAWKI or just everyday use, these are good stuff!
Alan Georges:
Jinxed myself! I knew that writing that review would cause a flat. Ripped out a stem last weekend while airing the tires up, so yeah, I had a flat but it was not a puncture flat. Seems to be how the universe works.
OTOH, rolled right through a broken bottle on today's ride with no ill effects.
thezoo:
gonna hafta look inta those
blueyedmule:
They're fantastic! Also Tufo tire sealant. With those two the only thing left is massive tire failure (like when I hit a man hole cover in the dark that was upside down centerpunching the hooks that secure it).
Alan Georges:
Three years and three months after installing these things, I finally had a flat! ;D Cause of the flat was a 1-1/4" drywall screw that finally wormed through the casing and the spinskin. Glass? Don't make my tires laugh.
Now mind you this is not my high-mileage bike, it's the weekend all-rounder, so I'm guesstimating that's only about 2500 miles. But still, this long (time or mileage) between flats is darned near miraculous.
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