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From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Re: tire savers
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 02:38:36 EDT
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> > 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.
> >
> 
> I've heard it said that the front tire loosens up the small
> items that cause punctures and they then stick into the rear
> tire and eventually penetrate.  The tire saver prevents them
> from making more than one trip around.

I guess I'm just wierd (or maybe lucky?), then, since all things equal, 
I was having many more front flats than rear flats...
-- 
...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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