Remember getting plenty of practice changing the inner tube on my Allez when I first got it a couple of years back. The stock tyres were rubbish. A switch to Armadillos, keeping out of the gutter and, importantly, being anal about checking/pumping the tyres up to max pressure once a week has done the trick (famous last words). A small saddle bag keeps spare tubes, levers and Co2 just in case! Wet weather seems worse when glass, stones etc. stick to the tyre rather than bounce off as they do in the dry.
I wish they would put decentish tyres on bikes as standard, given it's such a fundamental component doesn't feel right that they put garbage tyres on a bike being sold for 600+ quid.
I wish they would put decentish tyres on bikes as standard, given it's such a fundamental component doesn't feel right that they put garbage tyres on a bike being sold for 600+ quid.
