Phil
Well, I disagree! I used them quite a while and think they were useful. Course it's a bit difficult to know if it saved a flat - since if it did its job properly, you did not get the flat....
Don't think they are made anymore. Occasionally they show up on Ebay.
Now I just use the gloved hand - one of the main reasons for wearing gloves.....
Ken Sanford
Kensington, MD
>
> In a message dated 3/5/07 1:46:04 PM, gholl@optonline.net writes:
>
>>What is "tire saver"? How is it used on tubular tires and where can it
>>be purchased?
>>Thanks for the help.
>>George Hollenberg MD
>>(CT, USA)
>>
> The "tire saver" is one of the greatest hoaxes in cycling./ I all the
> years I
> rode on sewups I don't think they ever saved one flat. The classic tire
> saver-a piece of rounded wire with a couple of plastic tubes pressing it
> against
> the-tire is incapable of exerting enough force to remove a grain of sand,
> much
> less the ubiquitous "flint."
> Phil Brown
> They never worked in San Rafael, Calif.
>
>
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