This one goes out to the dozens of goat heads that stick my tires every week, and to the awful stroads without sidewalks where riding in a drainage ditch is usually your best option.
by Ask_The_Ketchup
This one goes out to the dozens of goat heads that stick my tires every week, and to the awful stroads without sidewalks where riding in a drainage ditch is usually your best option.
by Ask_The_Ketchup
4 Comments
I lived car-free in Albuquerque for like 2 years in college, and I feel your pain with the goatheads. They were the absolute bane of my existence. Not just the weekly (sometimes twice- or thrice-weekly) flats, but there is no way to ruin a good pair of hiking shoes faster than filling the soles with hundreds of tiny goathead spikes that cause the rubber to degrade faster.
Yeah I ride in AZ and put in slime tubes and flat resistant tires. Ride isn’t great, but beats flats from goat heads.
North America Stroads are horrible!I usually take the best/longest route to avoid them.And since 2010, all my bikes get fenders!It helps a lot with keeping a lot of the mud from the clothes and frame.
AZ also. Tubeless is the only way. Are you East or West?