Timeline for Why do I keep getting cut looking flats?
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| Nov 4, 2017 at 12:51 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | A more common problem, in my experience, is that the thickened area around the valve gets caught by the tire bead. (USUALLY this is reasonably obvious, as the tire will have a "hump" in it at the valve, but sometimes it's not so obvious.) The trick is, when installing the tire, to press the valve up into the rim a bit, so the thick area is inside the tire vs just against the rim. | |
| Nov 4, 2017 at 6:14 | history | edited | Nathan Knutson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2017 at 14:51 | comment | added | Useless | There's this one, but there are usually visible bulges rather than cuts: bicycles.stackexchange.com/q/9319/3311 | |
| Oct 31, 2017 at 14:27 | comment | added | stijn | this is slightly related, but only slightly, so it's probably also not what you guys are looking for? bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/50211/… | |
| Oct 31, 2017 at 5:35 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | I looked too and can't find the one I recall. | |
| Oct 31, 2017 at 5:11 | history | answered | Nathan Knutson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |