This little bugger costs me three tubes...

[weisan]

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Had to change tubes like three times before I finally found what it was that is stuck and well hidden inside the rubber. It's really hard to see...
This small little bugger is more of a menace than its entire family tree...

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[ColonelJLloyd]

I had glass impregnated in a Challenge PR that treated me to a half dozen flats before I got it all out.

Tubeless is so nice.

[Lewis Moon]

Kinda like the small wires spewn out by disintegrating steel belted tires. Two tubes. Lucky I had patches.

[texbike]

Ughhh. Those things were my nemesis when I was a kid. The dreaded Texas grass burr.

Texbike

[justaute]

Sticker grass! Hate those.

[azrider]

we call 'em Goatheads roun' here

[DrSpoke]

I once pulled about 40 of those goatheads out of a mtn bike tire, 5 or 6 all the way through. The tire still held air though - love tubeless :)

[R3awak3n]

must have been the campy Gods after what you did to that eddy merckx :)

[Cicli]

must have been the campy Gods after what you did to that eddy merckx :)

Your probably right. Although I think Italian goatheads are gold.

[jumphigher]

Just patch the tubes..

[bikinchris]

Kinda like the small wires spewn out by disintegrating steel belted tires. Two tubes. Lucky I had patches.

I had one like that when they started to grind up tires around here for recycling. They were so small, they couldn't be found until they started to rust.

[cpamplin]

I had glass impregnated in a Challenge PR that treated me to a half dozen flats before I got it all out.

Tubeless is so nice.


This guy was stuck so deep within a Schwalbe Marathon Plus that I couldn't find it. Four punctures in a week before I finally fished it out with tweezers.

I am also tubeless now.

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