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From: powers@noscvax.UUCP (William J. Powers)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: tire savers
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 12:25:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 12:25:19 1985
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> 
>   > From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker)
>   > Message-ID: <65@intelca.UUCP>
>   > 
>   > 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.  . . .
> 
> 						seismo!umcp-cs!fred

Because the rear wheel must bear a greater amount of weight than the
front tire and is also the driving wheel, the rear tire tends to get
more (in my experience, much more) flats than the front tire.
Consequently, this information has very limited value.
I ride tire savers on both front and rear tires.  I average a flat
about every one thousand miles on the rear tire; whereas, the average
distance between flats on the front tire is approximately 5000 miles.
Bill Powers.


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