Anyone ran rhinodillos bike tire flat protection strips?

http://www.cleanmotion.bike/unstoppable-flat-protection/



According to the company, these are around 50% stronger than other flat protection strips like 'Mr Tuffy' and 'stop flats'.

..i've ran 'stop flats', but they actually wore into my tube and caused a flat themselves, rendering them less than useless. But the rhinodillos have soft tips that supposedly prevent this from happening.

Anyone got experience with these? otherwise, i get to step up to play test hamster again.. :lol:

neptronix said:

..i've ran 'stop flats', but they actually wore into my tube and caused a flat themselves, rendering them less than useless. But the rhinodillos have soft tips that supposedly prevent this from happening.

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All the different strips have edges, and the edges will cause punctures if the ends don't do it first. I always recommend against these things. If you live in such a thorny hellhole that a good armored tire isn't enough, then get a smooth treaded tire in a slightly narrower width, carefully cut off the wire beads (leave the sidewalls), and tuck that into your tire. It will ride poorly, but at least it won't cause punctures.

neptronix said:

..i've ran 'stop flats', but they actually wore into my tube and caused a flat themselves, rendering them less than useless. But the rhinodillos have soft tips that supposedly prevent this from happening.

Anyone got experience with these? otherwise, i get to step up to play test hamster again.. :lol:

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I'd be willing to try them if you report back that they weren't the cause of a flat after a year. If I ever use one of these tire liners again, I'd probably glue it to the inside of the tire so I wouldn't shift around and eventually slice the tube.

Balmorhea said:

All the different strips have edges, and the edges will cause punctures if the ends don't do it first. I always recommend against these things. If you live in such a thorny hellhole that a good armored tire isn't enough, then get a smooth treaded tire in a slightly narrower width, carefully cut off the wire beads (leave the sidewalls), and tuck that into your tire. It will ride poorly, but at least it won't cause punctures.

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I can see that being a problem.

I've tried the tire in a tire trick before. Ride quality takes a pretty big hit and i felt that the extra friction was very close to using a motorcycle tire. I wasn't too impressed. A motorcycle tire seems to ride just as poorly, ha.
Maybe if you had a particularly thin inner tire RTV-ed to something like a schwalbe marathon plus.. one would have just enough rubber to avoid the maximum length i've seen a goathead - 11mm.

E-HP said:

I'd be willing to try them if you report back that they weren't the cause of a flat after a year. If I ever use one of these tire liners again, I'd probably glue it to the inside of the tire so I wouldn't shift around and eventually slice the tube.

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I've been thinking exactly that.. RTV them to the inside of a tire and have RTV smooth out any rough edges.. therefore they cannot shift around.. and you can also get a good alignment..

I imagine that RTV would be a pretty good glue because it's properties are really similar to a tire's rubber.

neptronix said:

Maybe if you had a particularly thin inner tire RTV-ed to something like a schwalbe marathon plus.. one would have just enough rubber to avoid the maximum length i've seen a goathead - 11mm.

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I'd go for talcum powder over RTV.

If you're just looking for some extra thickness, wrapping a sliced-open thorn resistant tube around a normal tube buys you another 3mm without as much ride quality or rolling resistance penalty as an equal thickness of tire.