How to ruin a perfect days ride

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It can always be worse - seems you managed to stop with the rubber side down....
But yes, it is a bugger when this happens
 
Yep. Slowing down from an 80 MPH pass on a nice sweeping turn on Georgia route 76. That thing is a hollow electrical connector pin. All the stars must have aligned perfectly for that thing to have gone straight in to the thickest tread section on a brand new tire
How to ruin a perfect days ride
 
Long ago a mechanic friend suggested that small items like that lay flat on the roadway until the front tire passes over them. In doing so the item then lifts up from the pavement and the rear tire is more likely to then be the victim.
 
TJBaker57 said:
Long ago a mechanic friend suggested that small items like that lay flat on the roadway until the front tire passes over them. In doing so the item then lifts up from the pavement and the rear tire is more likely to then be the victim.
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Yes, and some evidence that having a rubber deflector flap on end of front mudguard helps reduce rear punctures. I've run the deflector from Andover on my Commando for many years now, never had a puncture in 25k miles. On my modern bonneville, had 4 or 5 punctures over 8 years...all but one on rear. The front and rear went flat within milleseconds after a copper pulled a spike stripe out in front of me at 100kph.
 
TJBaker57 said:
Long ago a mechanic friend suggested that small items like that lay flat on the roadway until the front tire passes over them. In doing so the item then lifts up from the pavement and the rear tire is more likely to then be the victim.
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I just now thought of a similar situation.. Some years ago I became involved in long distance backpacking. (Like a single hike over 2000 miles long)

When you have a number of hikers in single file it is generally not the lead hiker that gets stung by the ground bees which are disturbed by the first hiker or two.

Another way to ruin a perfectly good day.
 
Glad you are around to talk about it. That happened to me but with a small piece of safety wire in my back tire only I caught it before it went in all the way.
 

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