First p*****re in as long as I can remember

[Salty seadog]

Well this just goes to show that you should keep your mouth shut about your pu****re luck, Ive not one in the 3 years I've been riding my hardtail and neither did I have one on my two previous bikes, also cross country bikes although mainly used on road. Thats a decade of cycling without one which I mentioned to a friend the other day......F*%k my luck if I didn't get one at the end of a 40 miler yesterday, the smallest of thorns. Gonna have to get used to them again as I've got a Whyte montpellier comming soon with 25mm tyres which I'm sure will put me at the roadside from time to time.....

 

[Roadhump]

Sod's law!! Similar happened to me last year, I hadn't had a puncture in about 10 years and got 5 in the next 3 or 4 months, 2 in one journey. I have now fitted Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres as the bloke in the bike shop down the road swears by them. It will make me a bit slower, but if it means fewer punctures that's a fair trade off for me.

 

[Kookas]

Well this just goes to show that you should keep your mouth shut about your pu****re luck, Ive not one in the 3 years I've been riding my hardtail and neither did I have one on my two previous bikes, also cross country bikes although mainly used on road. Thats a decade of cycling without one which I mentioned to a friend the other day......F*%k my luck if I didn't get one at the end of a 40 miler yesterday, the smallest of thorns. Gonna have to get used to them again as I've got a Whyte montpellier comming soon with 25mm tyres which I'm sure will put me at the roadside from time to time.....

Actually, doesn't a smaller contact patch mean a lower risk of a puncture? Since your path is less likely to coincide with a thorn or some such thing on account of covering less area.

 

[Paul.G.]

Well this just goes to show that you should keep your mouth shut about your pu****re luck, Ive not one in the 3 years I've been riding my hardtail and neither did I have one on my two previous bikes, also cross country bikes although mainly used on road. Thats a decade of cycling without one which I mentioned to a friend the other day......F*%k my luck if I didn't get one at the end of a 40 miler yesterday, the smallest of thorns. Gonna have to get used to them again as I've got a Whyte montpellier comming soon with 25mm tyres which I'm sure will put me at the roadside from time to time.....

Get yourself some Fenwick's no-tube sealer which works just as good in normal inner tubes. I've been using in my cross/winter bike for a couple of years with good results. It won't stop the puncture but seals the hole giving you a chance to continue riding and fix when you get home.

 

[Salty seadog]

Are there any drawbacks to using the slime approach, I get the idea that it is a messy operation but thats probably just down to the word slime, is it simple to use?