ya its a pretty dumb idea the videos I see people are bouncing around like in a bouncy house.
Dang. I guess I got lucky. I'm apparently the only one who just plugged it in and it worked with minimal adjustment to its preload one time.
One of the things I failed to mention in my post above is that my trust in Tannus Armour was conclusively diminished when I had to fix my first flat with a tire that had it installed. It was not the fact that I had the flat. I was that the armour had become so compressed that it was only around 3 0r 4 mm thick through the tread part and it is just foam not an aramid or kevlar layer like Mr. Toughy.
I have seen pictures of it worn to being paper-thin. I just pulled a wheel apart that had Tannus in for 1000 miles and it was still pretty thick. I stopped using Tuffy. Its not what it once was in decades past. Mine achieved a 0% success rate on nails and I abandoned it for sealant. FlatOut is the best. Kyle @ Bolton just did a side by side review and he shows *exactly* what Tuffy's limit is, and how head/shoulders better FlatOut is, to his surprise. I also use it for a tubeless sealant and it is way better than Stans or Orange Seal.
i haven’t tried traditional “clips” of any kind, i’m guessing they don’t provide the kind of positive connection that makes being clipped in so satisfying.
oh no... when you are in with 'clips and straps' and you use the cleats of the day... you are in... period. To get out you reach down to your foot and pinch the lever/buckle to loosen the strap so you can lift the cleat up and off the pedal edge its locked to. I do not miss cleats that I had to actually nail into the soles of my shoe one bit. Come to think of it, there were wooden soled shoes back then too. For stiffness. Blech.
FAILS
- Titanium crankarm bolts. One snapped which was the end of that bottom bracket. Whyyy did I think titanium would be a good thing down there? Stupid.
- A GoPro Hero5 Session. Garbage. Overheated just sitting without doing anything. Superheated when it was running. Would not connect to anything reliably. Returned it, thankfully.
- Tires. I am never satisfied. I have a stack of them with 80% tread in the garage. I've at least recognized I have a problem and am trying to go thru them and use them up.
- C/F handlebars. Only had to see one break once to know I don't need that to happen to me.
- C/F seatpost. That one did break on me. But thankfully it did so in the shop and not when I was doing a big drop or something similarly enema-like.
- Battery from a vendor I should have done more due diligence on. Turns out their batteries are made by UPP and white-labeled. The pack wore out really fast and based on how I charge and discharge it should still be perfect.
- I never should have used a seatpost rack to hold a battery. I picked a strong rack, but it was a constant PITA to keep adjusted and centered. Seatpost racks on FS bikes suck period.