Puncture Protection?

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Goat Heads will be the usual suspect. I ride roads for
exercise. Toss in the occasional rutted mountain road.
Receiving a Raleigh M-80 next week. LBS guy told me to go
with Slime & heavy duty tubes. I've googled Slime here and
would rather not have it in the tubes. I'm also concerned
about the added weight on a heavy(er) bike like the M-80. I
like the idea of using a liner. Are they effective?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Mike

mikeg wrote:
> Goat Heads will be the usual suspect. I ride roads for
> exercise. Toss in the occasional rutted mountain road.
> Receiving a Raleigh M-80 next week. LBS guy told me to go
> with Slime & heavy duty tubes. I've googled Slime here and
> would rather not have it in the tubes. I'm also concerned
> about the added weight on a heavy(er) bike like the M-80.
> I like the idea of using a liner. Are they effective?
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Mike

The wrench at my LBS says you can have the weight of flat
protection or the wait while you fix a flat. Light wheels
are nice, but I'll take the trade off. I live in goathead
country too. I've been slimed for two years now, no flats.
Slime *is* nasty if you have a blow-out. In my experience,
liners slow the inevitable but don't prevent flats. Also,
they can slip out of place giving a side wall great flat
protection (not normally helpful).

Shawn

I also own an M-80 (good choice) . The weight diff. between
a heavy duty tube and the tube thats on it will be nill -
you wont notice a thing. Since you are going to do rode with
occasional rutted mountain, you may want to consider semi-
slick tires, I have Hutchisen semi slick tires and they are
much lighter that the Velasaraptors (sp?) that come with an
M-80. Plus they rock on hard pack - I never ride in the mud
anyway....

"mikeg" <mgervaisunspam@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Goat Heads will be the usual suspect. I ride roads for
> exercise. Toss in the occasional rutted mountain road.
> Receiving a Raleigh M-80 next week. LBS guy told me to go
> with Slime & heavy duty tubes. I've googled Slime here and
> would rather not have it in the tubes. I'm also concerned
> about the added weight on a heavy(er) bike like the M-80.
> I like the idea of using a liner. Are they effective?
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Mike

"mikeg" <mgervaisunspam@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:hLCdnTKtWrmWNnPd4p2dnA@comcast.com...
> Goat Heads will be the usual suspect. I ride roads for
> exercise. Toss in the occasional rutted mountain road.
> Receiving a Raleigh M-80 next week. LBS guy told me to go
> with Slime & heavy duty tubes. I've googled Slime here and
> would rather not have it in the tubes. I'm also concerned
> about the added weight on a heavy(er) bike like the M-80.
> I like the idea of using a liner. Are they effective?
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Mike

Yeah, I recently had the same problem. I found that tire
liners w/the heavy duty thorn resistant tubes work very well
against goat heads. The tubes are so thick (and heavy) that
I was able to run 30 psi without getting snake-bites when I
previously required 45 psi. Slime and a thin tube weigh less
and work well, but you can't run the lower PSI. Oddly
enough, too, I was no longer getting goatheads with the
lower pressure and/or tire liner. I would've at least
expected to find the goatheads lodged in the tire but no, no
goatheads! I was getting a few dozen per ride before. An
awesome lightweight solution would be Stan's No Tubes kit.

Dave

Look for a tire with a built in kevlar liner. Serfas makes a
line of tires that have this feature. Then add in your
normal tire liner and thorn resistant tubes, and your
practically bulletproof.

I'm almost strictly road on my mtb, and i use the serfas
drifter tires with a liner and regular tube...and man does
that tire/liner combo take a beating. I've found all sorts
of shrapnel in my tires....thorns broken glass, metal bits,
rocks...none of it ended up being a flat.

"mikeg" <mgervaisunspam@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Goat Heads will be the usual suspect. I ride roads for
> exercise. Toss in the occasional rutted mountain road.
> Receiving a Raleigh M-80 next week. LBS guy told me to go
> with Slime & heavy duty tubes. I've googled Slime here and
> would rather not have it in the tubes. I'm also concerned
> about the added weight on a heavy(er) bike like the M-80.
> I like the idea of using a liner. Are they effective?
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Mike

Thanks for all the replies. Still don't know what I'm going
to do. Maybe just let the LBS do the slime thing and see
how it works.

mikeg wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies. Still don't know what I'm
> going to do. Maybe just let the LBS do the slime thing and
> see how it works.

Odds are that it'll be fine. I run tubeless and was very
hesistant about slopping Stan's into them for puncture
protection because of what I perceived to be extra weight
and potential for mess. I didn't notice a thing and I
wouldn't be without it now.
--
Westie (Replace 'invalid' with 'yahoo' when replying.)

"mikeg" <mgervaisunspam@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Goat Heads will be the usual suspect. I ride roads for
> exercise. Toss in the occasional rutted mountain road.
> Receiving a Raleigh M-80 next week. LBS guy told me to go
> with Slime & heavy duty tubes. I've googled Slime here and
> would rather not have it in the tubes. I'm also concerned
> about the added weight on a heavy(er) bike like the M-80.
> I like the idea of using a liner. Are they effective?
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Mike
>
>
Trojanenz should make innertubes.

TJ www.gvii.net/hundtoft www.fatboy.s5.com