Southern Tier Tinnitus
The Goatshead Thorn: one of the sharpest objects known to man The Desert is comprised of sharp object designed to puncture your tires and air mattress. These objects include but are not limited to goathead thorns, stainless steel wires from exploded truck tires, various cacti, rocks of all sizes, glass shards, thorn trees, and tire levers. If the sharp objects don’t puncture your tube, the heat will melt and displace your rim tape, again, resulting in a puncture. Do not move from the center of the road. If you do immediately stop and check your tires for goatshead thorns. Use tubeless tires when riding in the desert. Budget a quart of water every 12 miles or one hour, whichever comes first. Drinking and driving is the rule in the desert, not the exception. Evidence of this is the broken bottles every 4.3 inches of roadway. There are more pickup trucks than people on the desert. They travel at approximately 85 mph regardless of the road. Roosters outnumber pickup trucks and usually do