Quoting "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
> 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?

Considering how much people who live in goathead country like those  
Armored Rodent tires, which IMO are the next thing to concrete cart  
wheels, I imagine a mere kilo extra in tubes means nothing.  But this  
thread is about narrow tubes in fat tires -- do those thornproof tubes  
stretch much?



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