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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Flat Tire Epidemic
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 11:14:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 11:14:15 1985
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> But when I hear about flat tires, I just have to mention "Mr. Tuffies."
> Mr. Tuffies (don't laugh) are plastic strips which sit between bicycle
> tubes and tires.  I've been using them for over three years and have had
> (to the best of my recollection) only one puncture flat in all that
> time as a result.

I have had very bad luck with Mr. Tuffies, and so has my wife.  The
end tends to wear a hole in your inner tube, since it is sharp and
digs into the tube.  I complained to the bike shop and they said, yeah,
well they had had other complaints like this also.

I have had much better luck since removing them and using tires with
a kevlar belt.

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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