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@Klaster_1 Tubeless tires mainly prevent snakebite pinch flats. A snakebite pinch flat is often a three-fold user error. Firstly, the user selected a stupid 23mm wide tire whereas a 28mm wide tire would be better. Secondly, the user forgot to inflate the tire often as bicycle tires leak air naturally very quickly -- far quicker than car tires do. Thirdly, the user rode to a hard bump on the road or a kerbstone at too high speed. With often-inflated 28mm tires, as heavy and large inner tube that fits to those tires, and careful riding technique, I have not had any snakebites recently.
– juhist
Commented Jun 28, 2020 at 12:29
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Your answer could be improved by cutting out the rant starting at the third paragraph.
– HAEM
Commented Jun 28, 2020 at 13:00
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5-10 minutes to repair? I probably wouldn't even find the puncture in that amount of time.
– Džuris
Commented Jun 28, 2020 at 22:29
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I twice switched between whether to up- or downvote this question. It makes a couple of valid point, but the implied conclusion is questionable at best. “Puncture protected” tyres can be quite worthwhile for a bike that's mainly used in the city: rolling resistance is not really important there, and (depending on the city) there's a lot of glass lying around against which the kevlar band does offer some protection.
– leftaroundabout
Commented Jun 29, 2020 at 0:49
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...When I was living in Cologne, the Schwalbe protected tyres cut my puncture rate about in half (i.e., ca. every 4 months rather than every 2). That definitely saved me much more time than the bit of rolling resistance cost, and certainly the constant, predictable cost of longer travel time is less of a problem than the time of fixing a tyre when you just happen to be in a hurry. (Not to speak of the time wasted when the puncture happens just when you don't have a pump and spare tube at hand...)
– leftaroundabout
Commented Jun 29, 2020 at 0:55

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