Flat Protection - Tire Liners

[Rambo]

Did anybody ever try those plastic tire liners you insert inside your tire, and do they work at preventing flats from thorns and glass... etc.?

Here is a youtube video of a guy making his own tire liners from a Federal Express envelope which I think are made from Dupont TYVEK used in sealing houses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX1nlyrBwPg

 

[Talisman]

I have used the plastic liners and the results are mixed. Tubes with Slime have worked better for me than the plastic liners, but I still use them. I ride in an area filled with bull briars so puncture flats are common.

 

[bvibert]

Interesting idea. No need for them around these parts as far as I can tell though. The only flats I've ever got were from pinch flats.