...we both had punctures today. My schwalbe road cruiser finally succumbed to the nedwit glass disposal facility that is the Craigleith-Silverknowes path. So I need a replacement. Something similar, ie. a sensible, non-slick, commuter tyre capable of dealing with a mix of tarmac and rough-ish stone chip paths en route to my work, but with maybe better puncture resistance? Does such a tyre exist? Advice, please...
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Let me be the first to advise Schwalbe Marathon Plus. Merits debated on other threads but I think it's generally agreed that they do what they are meant to.
I've had a Schwalbe Delta Cruiser in the past and didn't rate its puncture resistant qualities.
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Specialized Armadillo. They wear out after about 3k miles but admit no puncturings.
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Continental GP4000 - good for 4000 miles then (quite literally) explode!
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The armadillos look a litle slick (if the pictures on the interweb are anything to go by) and I don't fancy tyres that spontaneously explode, so looks like the marathon plus is the way to go, methinks...
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Good luck with the MPs, they've been good for me. Just don't stray onto wet grass with them...other surfaces seem to be as you'd expect for a tyre like that IMHO
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@alibali: noted, luckily no grass on the commute, although wet leaves are pretty ubiquitous just now...
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Concur with Marathon Plus: solid as a solid thing. Not noticeably slow either.
Only two of my bikes are without Schwalbe Marathons or Marathon Pluses: the Raleigh Twenty (weird rim size) and the Mike Kowal SS (tiny clearances). You just can't beat SMP for endurance.
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So I headed off on the spare bike this morning to TBC to get a new Schwalbe marathon plus. A mile or so along the Silverknowes - Craigleith path ...I got another puncture! So that's two in successive weekends; two bikes are now sitting in the garage and will occupy me this afternoon. Question is: what, if anything, am I doing wrong? Both punctured tyres were freshly pumped up before heading off on their respective journeys, and the spare bike is an MTB with knobblies on that are far from worn. Am I just unlucky...?
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It's hard to tell IMK, potential things could be;
A small piece of glass (or whatever caused original puncture) was left in the tyre and worked its way back into the tube. Running your hand around the inside of tube in region of puncture can help to locate. (this caught me out this week. I managed a 50 mile night ride on Wednesday with no issues but it was flat the next morning in the same place as the Tuesday puncture)
Tyre's are at the lower end of the pressure recommendation?
A knobbly doesn't offer any more or less protection from puncture than a slick really.
Were the tubes replaced or patched? I've managed to patch tubes before without realising there were microscopic holes elsewhere in the tube that let the tyre deflate when given a good knock around.
Of course it's more than likely that you're doing nothing wrong and it's just bad luck. Carry spare tubes and a pump and just bash on!
Either that or like CB found, you've got an intruder inside the inner tube!
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@kaputnik: the punctures were in two different tyres/tubes on two different bikes. Neither had previously been punctured/repaired. Pressures were close to the top of the range.
Have now put on the marathon and a new tube, but somehow the various plates on the shimano hub that the gear cable runs through and clamps to have fallen apart so I need to find a diagram that will show me (a) if anything has broken and (b) how to put it back together again.
I'm not having a good day...
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Panic over. Diagram found, hub cable thingy reassembled and reattached, bike back in one piece and seems to be working :-)
On the down side I now need a new knobbly for the MTB as I tried to check for thorns, etc, in it by turning it inside out, and now it won't flip back the way... Suspect that was a schoolboy error... Ah well, we live and learn.
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