I set up an older rarely ridden mountain bike for a friend by swapping out the knobbies for slicks, and replacing the tubes with these, purchased on mail order from Performance Bike
Forté MTB Thorn Resistant Schrader Tube 26 x 1.5-2.0" The listing says the tube is 4x thicker than normal; and I recall a year ago installing them being surprised that they were so heavy...duh...about 1 lb each, almost 1 kilo the pair. For bikes as heavy as suffering the curse that began this thread, does that matter? Harry Travis' DC USA On Dec 6, 2:37 pm, Steve Palincsar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 10:58 -0800, Ian D. wrote: > > I don't mean to start this mess up again, but I have a related > > question. Schwalbe tubes are meant to fit a wide range of tire sizes > > (one tube for tires sized 26x1.5 to 26x2.5, for example). Their > > website claims that the tubes' high elasticity makes this possible. > > Does anyone have enough experience with these to know if they are free > > from the kinds of problems that one might have when using a small tube > > in a large tire? > > My only experience with Schwalbe tubes is with their 650B tube. It's > also marked as fitting these sizes: > > 47-559 (26x1.75) > 47-571 > 37-584 > 44-584 > 32-590 > 37-590 > 44-590 > 32-597 > > It fits a 38x650B Col de la Vie very well, and had none of that "floppy > too-big-to-fit > feeling that" makes you want to use undersized tubes. They also had a > phenomenal ability to > hold air without leaking at all. In many ways, they were the best tubes I've > ever used - and certainly > the only ones I've ever purchased that came with an instruction manual. > Better documentation, in > fact, than you get with a new computer these days! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bicycle Lifestyle" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bicyclelifestyle?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
