Wilsons Sandbox

> i do check tire pressure, and put air in only with the valve somewhere > besides the bottom. learned that from working on bicycles for many years.

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> never put slime in my own bike tires, since i can change a flat mtb tire

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> around 2 minutes (including pumping it to 40 psi) on the trail, but lotsa > customers used it. > mw >

Where I live, if you didn't slime your bicycle tires, you'd be constantly changing flats. We have puncture vines here, little thorny seeds that on a typical ride you can pick up about 10 per tire easy. So the name of the game here is to use extra heavy duty tubes and slime. Jeff