So it finally happened today. After roughly 10,000km without a single puncture, my Schwalbe Marathon Plus bit a nail. What is interesting is that the nail sealed the hole so I managed to ride it like this for another 4-5km before tire became too limp to support me. At that point I was less than 10 minutes of walking from home. It was lodged so hard in tire I had to use pliers to take it out. I guess a nail big enough can puncture any tire but honestly I can’t blame them for giving up to this. It is extremely rare for me to hit a nail like this one and I am sure these tires prevented many other flats from glass shards and thorns which drove me crazy with other non-protected tires.
ThisSaladTastesWeird on
That’s WILD. Glad you weren’t too far away from home when it finally gave up!
thebiggerounce on
Lowkey forgot that measuring tapes could come in metric and was confused about why those inches look short… it’s been a rough morning.
curiosity8472 on
No tire is gonna stop that lol
Impressive_Soft5923 on
Yeah it takes some serious pointy thing to flat a marathon. I just don’t understand how it does that.
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So it finally happened today. After roughly 10,000km without a single puncture, my Schwalbe Marathon Plus bit a nail. What is interesting is that the nail sealed the hole so I managed to ride it like this for another 4-5km before tire became too limp to support me. At that point I was less than 10 minutes of walking from home. It was lodged so hard in tire I had to use pliers to take it out. I guess a nail big enough can puncture any tire but honestly I can’t blame them for giving up to this. It is extremely rare for me to hit a nail like this one and I am sure these tires prevented many other flats from glass shards and thorns which drove me crazy with other non-protected tires.
That’s WILD. Glad you weren’t too far away from home when it finally gave up!
Lowkey forgot that measuring tapes could come in metric and was confused about why those inches look short… it’s been a rough morning.
No tire is gonna stop that lol
Yeah it takes some serious pointy thing to flat a marathon. I just don’t understand how it does that.