Posted: 10/28/2015 1:13:30 PM EDT
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Ok so i got this problem...i bought a new Windsor Wellington 3.0 a few years back in 2013...really solid bike for the money, matches up to 800$ ones after some tuning.
http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/windsor/wellington3_IX.htm But then i remembered why i traded my last road bike...i keep on getting flats due to how thin the tire and tube is. Is there anything i can do? Like maybe buy a different wheel, like that of a mountain bike? I am so tired of patching up tubes although ive gotten pretty good at it. So uh i cant hit curbs on this bike Also, the chain guard...this part just shattered due to trashy cheap chinese plastic(bike is holding up very well though) 
is there anything i can do besides buying one for like 30$ or rolling up my pants every time? Winter is coming and having rolled up pants is going to look...weird. So my main mode of transportation is kind-of gutted. Using a trashy diamondback sorrento which actually hasnt ever let me down...but its so darn slow...i want my other bicycle. And time is of the essence |
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I used to trail ride on 1.25 75 psi 10 speed tires before balloon tire 10 speeds were the norm they make tuffy liners to prevent thorn punctures and high pressure prevents the snakebite pinches from tire compression a good pair of 40 dollar gravel tires should help |
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Quoted: If your flats are a pair of parallel slits on the inner tube, you need to inflate your tires to the recommend PSI on the sidewall and steer around potholes and curbs when possible. |
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Degrease that disgusting chain and relube it. Do this routinely as in weekly or monthly depending on how much you ride. You'll still want to keep your paints off the chain, but at least they won't look like a black mess if you do bump it.
Keep your tubes inflated to within the range listed on the tire. Low side for softer ride; high side for a more efficient ride. Check the pressure with a gauge before every ride. Pump if necessary. Lastly, replace your tires when they are worn out and/or dry rotted and replace all patched tubes as soon as the ride is over. Better yet, don't patch tubes. Carry a replacement tube or two. |
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This, you're having pinch flats, and a road bike is not made to hop curbs on either. Keep it on the road, not in the air. Quoted:
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If your flats are a pair of parallel slits on the inner tube, you need to inflate your tires to the recommend PSI on the sidewall and steer around potholes and curbs when possible. 
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If your flats are a pair of parallel slits on the inner tube, you need to inflate your tires to the recommend PSI on the sidewall and steer around potholes and curbs when possible.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhabgvIIXik
neat video, i have to think they are using some kind of solid inner-tube or modified rim that or they replaced a few rims/flats making that video of course those guys are very skilled and absorb a lot of the impact with their knees and such |
..chain guard?what is that?
| I would degrease that chain in mineral spirits and then lube it with White Lightning every fifty miles or so. The chain will stay perfectly clean and dry. This will prevent grease on your pant leg. If you want to keep from lubing as often but want a dry/clean chain, soak the degreased chain in a pan with hot parafin wax and a tiny bit of kerosene for thirty minutes. You won't to touch it for hundreds of miles. |
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I would degrease that chain in mineral spirits and then lube it with White Lightning every fifty miles or so. The chain will stay perfectly clean and dry. This will prevent grease on your pant leg. If you want to keep from lubing as often but want a dry/clean chain, soak the degreased chain in a pan with hot parafin wax and a tiny bit of kerosene for thirty minutes. You won't to touch it for hundreds of miles. I used that White Lightning for years. It works very well. If you keep the chain clean, the White Lightning shouldn't stain your pants too bad. It should wash right out. I have never tried heated Parrifin wax and kerosene. It sounds like it would work very well. |
| I had a cheap pair of gaiters that I put over my shoes that protected my pants when I was biking-commuting. They looked a little goofy, but I'm sure no one else really cared besides me. They worked. It wasn't a knee high gaiter, only about 8" tall and covered my shoe laces up to 6" over my ankles. |
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This, you're having pinch flats, and a road bike is not made to hop curbs on either. Keep it on the road, not in the air. Quoted:
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If your flats are a pair of parallel slits on the inner tube, you need to inflate your tires to the recommend PSI on the sidewall and steer around potholes and curbs when possible. Yep. NEVER hop curbs on a road bike! It will destroy it!!!!
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neat video, i have to think they are using some kind of solid inner-tube or modified rim that or they replaced a few rims/flats making that video of course those guys are very skilled and absorb a lot of the impact with their knees and such Quoted:
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If your flats are a pair of parallel slits on the inner tube, you need to inflate your tires to the recommend PSI on the sidewall and steer around potholes and curbs when possible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhabgvIIXik
neat video, i have to think they are using some kind of solid inner-tube or modified rim that or they replaced a few rims/flats making that video of course those guys are very skilled and absorb a lot of the impact with their knees and such Standard off the floor high end road bike. These guys are some of the best in the world. 
ETA: in the vid I posted, that is the exact same bike that was used to win the Tour de France that year. |