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Back when I was putting up to 6000 miles per year on my bicycle (all transportation riding), I was averaging a flat every couple hundred miles. Most of the flats were thorns, with the rest from glass. The thorns and glass would embed in the tire and gradually poke holes in the inner tube.
I tried a pair of extra thick inner tubes that were supposed to be thorn proof. No good, it just took a little longer for the first holes to appear. One particularly bad day, I had three flats in ten miles on the way home from work.
I got good at fixing flats. With practice, I could fix a flat, reinstall the wheel, and pump it up in ten minutes.
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06 Canyon: The vacuum gauge plus wheel covers helped increase summer 2015 mileage to 38.5 MPG, while summer 2016 mileage was 38.6 MPG without the wheel covers. Drove 33,021 miles 2016-2018 at 35.00 MPG.
22 Maverick: Summer 2022 burned 62.74 gallons in 3145.1 miles for 50.1 MPG. Winter 2023-2024 - 2416.7 miles, 58.66 gallons for 41 MPG.
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