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  flat minimization

  I'm a cyclist (or maybe I should I say was --- I keep hoping to ride more than I have in the last year or so). When I started riding seriously, mostly on crappy debris-strewn shoulders of suburban and exurban arteries, I would get flats with great regularity. Many per year. I switched to kevlar-reinforced tires for my hybrid bike and my flat tire ratio went down to one every several years. I suppose kevlar (the stuff of body armor and bulletproof vests) is pretty anti-ecological in its derivation and manufacture. But maybe there's an offsetting positive in slowing down the consumption cycle as dramatically as these much more durable tires have done for me. Some riders complain about a "harder" feel, but that never bothered me.On Umbra on bicycle tires posted 2 years, 7 months ago 11 Responses