Saturday, Jul 05, 2014 at 10:33
There are literally millions of the things on the old Ghan rail line, the thing is when it's dry & sandy they are just under the surface & you won't see them, after a bit of rain the surface dust/sand washes away, then you will see a carpet of them in some
places!
If you go slow i.e. 40kph then you are unlikely to get a
puncture from one, (dropping the tyre pressures helps as
well), but the faster you got the more likely you are to get "spiked", the front tyres kick up a spike then the rears nail them, pop, flat tyre that is rarely repairable.
There are also other bits of railway junk on the track, bolts, plates, slivers of steel etc...
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