Re: [RBW] The real reason to like Schwalbe superlight tubes

2014-11-24 Thread Ron Mc
The price gets you up to latex tubes, which I've been using for 4 years. They probably don't fold up as neatly, but they ride wonderfully and are easy to patch - you just need a small tube of tubie mastik and a piece of dead tube to glue on. They do require pumping the tires every week and ev

Re: [RBW] The real reason to like Schwalbe superlight tubes

2014-11-23 Thread ted
http://www.compasscycle.com/tires_tubes_650.html Nice to hear about the patching. On Sunday, November 23, 2014 7:05:40 PM UTC-8, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 11/23/2014 09:13 PM, ted wrote: > > They are so tiny. I mean they pack down really small. I fit two in my > > small flat fix pouch where

Re: [RBW] The real reason to like Schwalbe superlight tubes

2014-11-23 Thread Steve Palincsar
On 11/23/2014 09:13 PM, ted wrote: They are so tiny. I mean they pack down really small. I fit two in my small flat fix pouch where only one regular tube fits. I do however wonder how well they work once you put a patch on one. The patch doesn't stretch like the tube does. I makes an uneven hard

[RBW] The real reason to like Schwalbe superlight tubes

2014-11-23 Thread ted
They are so tiny. I mean they pack down really small. I fit two in my small flat fix pouch where only one regular tube fits. I do however wonder how well they work once you put a patch on one. The patch doesn't stretch like the tube does. I makes an uneven hard spot. Will that make a patched sup