Jan Heine wrote:
>
>Often, you barely pick up a thorn, piece of glass, etc., and it
>barely sticks to the tread. As you roll further, this debris gets
>hammered into the tire. (I know that many, including Sheldon Brown,
>claim that it isn't so,
I _never_ said that, and don't believe that.
I am an occasional tire wiper, and used to use tire savers ("nail catchers") back before Massachusetts enacted bottle deposit requirements. The glass problem is now much less here than it was before, and there are no goatheads in New England.
Sheldon "Flint Snatchers" Brown Newtonville, Massachusetts
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