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From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: tire savers
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Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 04:55:55 EDT
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I don't know how scientific it is, but I have been riding all year with
a tire saver on the rear tire and none on the front tire.  The results?
No appreciable difference in the incidence of flats on either tire
in > 1000 miles.  Notable, these were mainly in the Santa Cruz mountains,
not in the city, where I would expect there to be more "tire dangerous" stuff.

Also, there is no problem using tire savers with fenders, in fact, that
is the reason for my current setup (I have a rear fender but no front
fender).  All you need do is attach the tire saver to the end of the
fender instead of wherever you have it attached now.  My fenders convienently
have a hole right in the center that can be used for this purpose.
-- 
...and I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody outside of a small circle
of friends...

Ken Shoemaker, Microprocessor Design for a large, Silicon Valley firm

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