She hadn't noticed - !?

[Blue Hills]

It is clearly a subject that many of us on CC feel strongly about - LINK!

Thanks for the link colin - a lot of reading for me there

 

[3narf]

Before we had a refurb and a new cleaning regime our office toilets were gopping so I was in the habit of laying a line of bog paper on each side of the seat before sitting down to catch up on some texting. One fine day I walked back into the office and heard a fit of giggles behind me from one of the women; looked back and realised that a length of toilet paper had got hitched up and was hanging from the waistband of my trousers. That was a little embarrassing.

You could have just told them you had a fax coming through.

 

[2IT]

You must have better road surfaces than we have round here then!

When I was 17 stone I tried 115 rear, 105 front. Result? Bottles bouncing out of cages, toothache, cramp in hands and feet, and my GPS switching itself off due to vibration! I am less than 14 stone now and use 95 rear and 85 front.

I'm have 25Cs on my Cannondale and am using about 90 rear and 80 front.

Do you have many pinch flats? Roads are not ideal around here either. My problem is too low and I get pinch flats and too high pinch saddle sores.

 

[ColinJ]

Do you have many pinch flats? Roads are not ideal around here either. My problem is too low and I get pinch flats and too high pinch saddle sores.

Not that often. I keep my eyes open for major problems such as holes and debris.

I got one pinch puncture a few years ago when I went over a sharp-edged mini-trench cut across a lane near a farm. I think the farmer must have cut it to run a cable or pipe across the road and then not repaired the surface properly. I hadn't spotted it because the road was covered in leaves at the time.

I got one on my cyclocross bike a few weeks ago. In that case, it was because I had let my pressures go silly low. The tyres are chunky 35C semi-slicks so they use lower pressures than my road bikes, but I reckon that I only had about 35 PSI in them. I hit a stone drainage channel at speed and instantly knew my tyre would go flat. I had stopped before it did!

I can put up with (say) a couple of pinch punctures a year to get the vastly improved comfort offered by lower tyre pressures.

 

[BikeCurious]

I once saw a kid riding a BMX with no back tyre on at all! Just bare metal on the road. He didn't seem to care and it didn't slow him down.

 

[jim55]

A saintly mother? Intriguing.

Lol yeah , spd sandals are compulsory

 

[Globalti]

My brother lives in Michigan and he has special insurance for his car wheels and tyres, so bad are the roads.

 

[2IT]

Getting tired of pinch flats. At the high speeds or due to failing eyesight they come to often. Thinking of tubeless next time I need nee tires.

Not that often. I keep my eyes open for major problems such as holes and debris.

I got one pinch puncture a few years ago when I went over a sharp-edged mini-trench cut across a lane near a farm. I think the farmer must have cut it to run a cable or pipe across the road and then not repaired the surface properly. I hadn't spotted it because the road was covered in leaves at the time.

I got one on my cyclocross bike a few weeks ago. In that case, it was because I had let my pressures go silly low. The tyres are chunky 35C semi-slicks so they use lower pressures than my road bikes, but I reckon that I only had about 35 PSI in them. I hit a stone drainage channel at speed and instantly knew my tyre would go flat. I had stopped before it did!

I can put up with (say) a couple of pinch punctures a year to get the vastly improved comfort offered by lower tyre pressures.

 

[ColinJ]

Getting tired of pinch flats. At the high speeds or due to failing eyesight they come to often. Thinking of tubeless next time I need nee tires.

I'm quite interested in tubeless too. If I ever have the cash for a new 'best bike' I think that might be the way to go.