I’m calling for a total ban on glass containers until people learn to clean up after themselves 
Best tires for the city, they say: slicks that puncture if you look at them wrong.
The city: where every street is littered with glass.
I’ve been lucky but I think it helps that my tires are a little knobbly.
Best tires for the city, they say: slicks that puncture if you look at them wrong.
the only “they” possible here is the fixie community and you really have to stop listening them for a variety of reasons.
Don’t forget moneybags roadies that buy a new set of tires every 6 months!
Best tires for the city are schwable marathons or continental contact plus. Slicks are nice for well paved roads with no trash, so no where.
Yeah those continentals are great. The schwalbes are basically tanks and are great for tank purposes.
highly dependable on location. if you live in 70s new york those marathosn are for you, otherwise every other tyre made heaps and bounds as per puncture protection without feeling like you’re trying to drag a sand over rock
I rode a bike with mostly slick city tires for years without a single puncture, then I had incredibly shitty luck and in the span of a few months managed to hit like 6 glass shards. I just got this bike a few weeks ago
Oof sorry friend.
I’ve had good luck with schwalbe and continental, they tend to have models resistant to puncture and they aren’t too focused on “pro performance” (disposable but grippy).
This time I was left stranded about 10 km from home and I had to walk the bike to a friend’s house. Usually, the punctures I get are so small that the air escapes slowly enough that I can get all the way home only to discover a completely flat tire the next day.
Anyway, I decided to try patching the tube instead of replacing it this time which proved to be much less of a hassle and something that I could do on the road in the future, so it was a valuable experience
Oh nice! Good work! Always great when a tube patch can get you home. I actually carry full on tubes (light and small tpu ones) and they also come with a mini patch kit. Got them on aliexpress for like $6 per tube in bulk a while back.
I found the most effective way to deal with microplastics in my balls was simply to have them removed entirely.
not sustainable.
i empty mine regularly to collect the microplastics and use them for my 3d printer.
free filament baby
Microplastic is stored in the ballz
I’m sorry this happened, comrade. It’s time to join the cult of Schwalbe Marathons, if you haven’t already
You beat me to it. I can also attest to the effectiveness of Schwalbe Marathons. Great in all conditions, not too heavy, and puncture-proof as it gets. Additionally, the retro reflective stripe is incredible for night time visibility. Best in class everyday tire, easily.
Those tires look pretty slick, OP, I know money doesn’t grow on trees but please consider it as a safety measure.
That’s actually not a tire in the photo- it’s the basement floor. I took the picture after digging out the piece of glass out of my tire. My actual tires look pretty similar to this
Ahhhhh my bad fam! Yeah regular tires like that are perfectly fit for use. It’s definitely quite nice for quality of life rolling around with puncture resistant tires, whenever the time to swap comes! I always have puncture anxiety lol.
I bought the bike used but the tires it came with are pretty pristine. Would hate to have to buy new ones already. If this becomes a regular occurrence, I might have to swap out at least the tire on the rear wheel though. I might also start carrying a patching kit and one of those electric mini bike pumps in my backpack
Also it looks like local shops don’t stock 26 x 2.0
Those CO2 cannisters are lighter than the pump and can be used in a pinch if necessary.
No need to rush out and get Marathons, but they might be worth getting as your next tyres. Stores can get them in easy if you ask, or keep an eye out online and get some on sale.
Those CO2 cannisters are lighter than the pump and can be used in a pinch if necessary.
Those battery-powered bike pumps can be really tiny, like less than 200 grams tiny.
I have a more general one that’s a bit big to carry around on a bike, but I have seen those smaller ones from Trek. A lot more expensive than my Xiaomi 1S though
On AliExpress they’re 40 bucks or less
No plastics, no glass, no aluminum either, at this point just reconsidering all of industrial society
its pretty bad out there. I used to get punctures like once a month in the summer, almost always from glass. I got some nicer (but slightly skinnier) tires and now I haven’t picked up a noticeable puncture like that in ages but now they just leak their pressure down in under a week so I’m not sure whats worse. (bike nerds: is this because I’m using schrader tubes? my bigger tires seemed to hold better but they didn’t need 60psi)
(bike nerds: is this because I’m using schrader tubes? my bigger tires seemed to hold better but they didn’t need 60psi)
It’s my anecdotal experience that schrader leaks more air at higher pressure than dunlop or presta but every other day seems like maybe you dinged your valves somewhere along the line or have a slow leak
My presta tubes need to be aired up every week, I think it’s a consequence is higher pressure tubes (60-90psi)
mine probably need some air like every other day but it doesn’t get truly bad until its been like 5+ days.
its very annoying. Makes me want to go back to having like 2.75" wide tires that only need like 30-40 psi. These aren’t even that small, still 1.75" I think, but the leakage is brutal. I’m too lazy for this
We’re going to commit to a Calabash Gourd bottle society now
Everything now must have filling stations instead of being sold in packages, you want coke? bring your expensive thermos and fill it at the store, y’all can’t be trusted with anything.
Get some kevlar tires
Tire blowouts are the worst
