Do you often have a punctured bicycle tube? You can’t imagine a ride without nerves and pulling out spikes? I understand you very well, believe me! I faced this problem as soon as I bought my first adult bike and went for a ride in the city park. That ride turned into constant tire inflation and taping at all the service stations I encountered. And such a condition continued for many more years.

The reason for this, of course, is the area where I live. It is the endless steppes of Zaporozhye, where thorns from acacia, yakorza (the main pest, by the way) and various weeds are everywhere. For example, after driving along the asphalted road for 10 kilometers, I punctured the wheel 7 times. I extracted about 50 spikes from the tread, which did not reach the camera with the help of tweezers. And this is the norm for this kind of terrain. What to say about traveling cross-country, even somewhere in the steppes of Khortytsia or Zaporozhye plains?