I had some kevlar liners in my old road bike 10-15 years ago, and they worked very well at preventing flats, even here in goat-headville. The advent of kevlar belted tires has pretty much obviated the need for them.
They work ok, but I think that if I hit a gnarly enough sticker or something, I'll have a flat anyway. After I bought the liners, I found that my flats were coming from the rim. They were not deburred enough where they drilled through the inner wall of the wheel!! DOH!! Once I deburred all of the holes, my flat tire problem was fixed!!
Shouldn't rim tape prevent this?!
Wondering that myself.
Well, the rim tape would slide out of the way, and then the rim would cut my tube. It was very frustrating situation, to say the least!! This caused me about ten flats in all, and I have it taken care of now, thank goodness!! I deburred the inner rim, and also bought some Velox fabric rim tape, and this stuff is very good. It has an adhesive on the inner portion, so once it is applied, it stays in place. Again, all of this happened on a MTB, not a roady.
Velox is the best. That's all I use. Just make sure that you are using the proper width tape for the rim. Too narrow and it will creep around on the rim.
I bought two rolls, 100 yards each. Set forever.
Sweet! I didn't know it came in 100 yd rolls. Who carries it that way?
That's a very good question. This was when I was importing bike gear into Australia. I have no idea where it got it from. I still have most of a roll left.
Hmmm, so this is not likely something that QBP would carry?
