At the weekend I got a pinch flat on an undropped kerb at Asda Chesser. Annoying but who can say when the tyre was last pumped up, not a bike I've been using much.
Yesterday, just west of the Almond aqueduct there's a spillway on the towpath which has a lot of hard stone edges, but I've never had much bother with. In hindsight I was always riding our ebike with "summer" tyres (Big Apples). On yesterday's commute it had ~32mm Marathon Winters on, freshly pumped up, and I got an immediate pinch flat :(
On the way home I was extra careful on that bit, then got a pinch flat crossing the watercourse on the way up Donkey Lane! (My little portable pump doesn't have a gauge so possibly not mega hard at that point.)
That's three pinch flats in three rides! That bike last had a flat in April '23 (a thorn) and before that twice in winter '22 (a thorn, and something unknown on the road in Kirknewton)
Time to put the fat summer tyre back on. I apologise in advance for the snow and ice storms this will cause!
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