Re: Ebay prices

On 4/8/2025 4:38 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 4/8/2025 5:29 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:06:16 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 4/7/2025 2:01 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Sun Apr 6 19:12:56 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

On 4/6/2025 6:04 PM, cyclintom wrote:

Yesterday, I was fixing flats on three different bikes. I went up to Robinson's and picked up some new tubes because the flats are all pin holes and I've never successfully repaired those. I fix one hole and another appears 3 inchs away. Nothing in the tire.

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Wow. So many problems!

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So now Frank is telling us that he never gets flats.

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Not at all, Tom! I've described here getting something like three flats
within 15 miles. I've described other flats as well. Flats are a normal
part of bicycling.
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But I do know how to successfully fix flats. Your "I've never
successfully repaired those. I fix one hole and another appears 3 inchs
away." is very, very unusual.

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    If there's a piece of fine wire in the tire repairing the
inner tube will not prevent a flat a few minutes later.
    Fine wire is very common in our asphalt, which is made of
recycled truck/car tires (plus other stuff). It's the tires that have
those nasty stainless steel wires.
    I always run my finger round the inside of the tire before
replacing the repaired inner tube. I usually simultaneously find the
culprit and puncture my finger..

 Tom has complained about wire flats before. He blamed it on Biden.
 

    []'s

 

Biden had his own sins but I'd bet we wasn't driving around on auto tires worn through until the steel wires shred.  Not in Oakland at any rate
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