do the bicycle police come give you a fine if you put a tube in a tubeless tire?
IRC Siren Pro. An extremely excellent tire that I’ve been running on the front of my bakfiets for years with minimal issues. I get maybe 2000 miles per tire. I don’t know if that’s good or not but my stash has served me very well over the years.
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huh, interesting. my partner has had mixed experiences with their siren pros on their omnium. specifically with sealing small punctures! I don’t ride my clydesdale enough to have noticed any issues with mine
Interesting. This is the first small puncture that I’ve had trouble getting to seal. Usually I just rotate the puncture down for a few minutes and take a load off while the tire soup does its thing.
With this puncture, it’ll seal and then after riding for a few blocks, it starts going pst pst pst again.
I put this tire on at the beginning of winter and it got me through with no problems so I’m fine with calling it roached. Just gotta get home on it lol
Is the sealant a little tired?
Maybe. I refreshed it on the side of the road but it still didn’t hold very long. That’s when I tried the dart.
Update: turns out I had three of those tires in my tire bin.
I bought five of them with no packaging for like sixty bucks from a BMX store that was closing and they came wrapped in a white kitchen garbage bag lol. Can’t imagine why that store went out of business.
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Fifth or sixth time I used it to remove and refit a creaky pedale (wtf oneup I thought we were friends) on the way up the fire road.
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I assume they will replace it but if not I be we could send-cut-send a new side plate in steel or Ti.
I have a little collection of broken multi tools and random bits from bikes and the little small leatherman tools and keep fussing with them trying to come up with my own custom arrangement of a cool little pocket tool for all occasions.
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I mean, it did snap as I was stomping on it. I don’t think I deserve a replacement.
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It’s the details that really make the story.
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Eh if they give you a pedal wrench it should be strong enough to take off a pedal.
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Sometimes even full sized tools break though. If you need to stomp on the tool, it probably isn’t the tool’s fault that the pedal ain’t coming out.
Would you say the same about a tire lever? Because those break all the time.
I’ve never broken a good quality (Pedro’s etc) tire lever
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funny I consider those consumables, I have broken more Pedro’s levers than I have fingers
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whomst among us hasn’t used an inappropriately small ratchet handle with a pipe? I did the other day when I couldn’t find my big impact or my torque wrench, 3/8” tekton boi is a trooper
I have been known to loop a boxend wrench over an allen key or another boxend wrench for more leverage.
My socket wrench slips if I give it too much torque.
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pedro’s allegedly have a lifetime warranty but i always just toss em
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“thank you for your service”
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