nothing "really, now" about it. Latex tubes were the first. They go hand-in-hand with supple tires - they already come in the best fine-casing tubulars (sew-ups).
<http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/F%20Moser/aP5110001-1.jpg> they were also in every pneumatic tire made in the nineteen-naughties-40s, and if you find one, it's very likely still usable today (the vulcanized tire won't be). <http://thecabe.com/forum/attachments/20150520_205417-1-jpg.316080/> This is only now and really to you. Counting tubulars, I've been riding latex tubes forever. ok, it's really only about a dozen years they have been offered as separate tubes from the high-grade supple tubulars they always come in. I tried butyl tubes, I can't do it. My latex tubes are calling me. Butyl tubes are a chemistry set invention trying to duplicate the properties of natural latex. Natural latex is better - it's Much more elastic and it lasts longer. As Steve pointed out, sometimes this extra-high elasticity can work against you. If you have a tire with a weak bead, they can squeeze through to blow out. But it won't be the drama that Steve extapolated, It will be a pop, very likely a small hole, and even casual deflation, and I've even patched and re-used latex tubes after it's happened. But most times, the extra elasticity is all in your favor. You patch these with a piece of latex cut from an old tube and tubie mastic, and the patch is permanent. Unlike butyl patches, latex patches stretch. On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 11:52:49 PM UTC-5, Lungimsam wrote: > > New to the supple tube zeitgeist and was wondering: > 1. Really?!?! First supple tires and now supple tubes? ;) > 2. Is their any research on safety of butyl vs. latex? Specifically with > flats resulting in catastrophic tears? Like does a simple puncture in latex > develop into a blowout tear faster than butyl? > 3. How do you patch a latex tube? > 4. Does the tire casing material "fight" with the latex and does one > eventually degrade the other over time (like metals)? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
