Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
Do you mean these?
Yup...oops, my ride from El Paso was this May, not July. In July I rode from Abilene to Minot.
I've had goat heads on eastern plains of Colorado and also in Wichita Falls, TX and the Texas panhandle. Fortunately, haven't had them along southern tier route, but they may be there as well as along the OPs route via Ruidoso NM. Schwalbe tires seem to block many, but not all of them.
When I was in Northern Colorado, I recall a club ride I was on that went through Windsor Colorado. Our mistake was taking a short stretch of bike path along the way. Shortly thereafter, between 5 bicycles we had 8 flat tires, so a few with both front and back flat tires. We were fortunate to get everything patched and were more careful after that.