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Within the first couple of miles I suffered a pinch flat from a dropped manhole cover that I have to ride over every single day and which hasn't troubled me with a flat before.
Pinch flat isn't really the tyres fault, unless you run tubeless/wide rims.
Then, within the next 1/2miles, I had a second flat caused by a huge gash in the tyre from a piece of glass (see attachment).
Happen to us all, the law of punctures is exactly that, sometime you go for thousand of miles on a shitty tyres, yet get punctured on the second day of using the Marathon Plus*.
*That did happen, a large nail managed to gorged it way into a customer's 2 days old Marathon Plus, took me a while to convinced him that shit happen.
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These tyres are a complete disaster.
I've been running folding Gator Hardshell 23c on my fixed gear commuter for about a year. I'd estimate that they've done at least 3000 miles (16 miles a day for an average of 3.5 days a week + a few leisure rides). I'd had two punctures in that time. They were looking a bit worn and I thought I'd try something different - in particular something with a bit more grip going into the winter months.
I'd been umming and ahhing and wondering whether I should just stick with the Hardshells, weighing up all kinds of alternatives before pulling the trigger on a couple of Ribmo folding 23c which were £22.99 each.
I fitted them yesterday afternoon and rode in this morning in admittedly poor conditions, but no worse than the heavier rain last Monday which didn't trouble my old Hardshells.
Within the first couple of miles I suffered a pinch flat from a dropped manhole cover that I have to ride over every single day and which hasn't troubled me with a flat before.
Then, within the next 1/2miles, I had a second flat caused by a huge gash in the tyre from a piece of glass (see attachment).
The literature says that, with these tyres, "the protection offered against penetration and pinch flats is 300% better than standard tyres" and the Ribmo "offers unrivalled bead to bead puncture resistance".
Well, that is nonsense. I'm writing this off as a waste of £45 and will be putting these straight into the bin as soon as my new Hardshells arrive...
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