Originally Posted by
caloso
Tribulus terrestris
Up in the north, we don't have those, but we can have a bunch of sharp grit, a lot of it laid down for traction in the winter. Before going tubeless, I was probably flatting at a rate of something like once every 300-400 miles. For a low-mileage cyclist, that might be fine, but when that rate translates to 10+ per ~year (we're really talking about a riding season that's squeezed in to 7 or 8 months), that's a whole lot of ********.