A new inner tube that cost more than most tyres.

[SkipdiverJohn]

I like an inner tube I can repair if I need to, not use once and throw away.
The Tubolito needs a unique repair kit for it's compound ..so I will stick to bog stranded rubber and take the same repair/tool kit from bike to bike thanks

You're just a dinosaur. C'mon Man!, you gotta buy into the new ways of doing things. How are Schwalbe going to turn a profit if they keep making bomb-proof tyres that last 10,000 miles and inner tubes you can keep fixing? Stuff needs to be flimsy, disposable, and premium priced, and riders must be brainwashed into believing they are essential kit.

 

[roley poley]

You're just a dinosaur. C'mon Man!, you gotta buy into the new ways of doing things. How are Schwalbe going to turn a profit if they keep making bomb-proof tyres that last 10,000 miles and inner tubes you can keep fixing? Stuff needs to be flimsy, disposable, and premium priced, and riders must be brainwashed into believing they are essential kit.

waiting for the day when bikes come with a sticker saying"no user serviceable parts, contact dealer"

 

[IanSmithCSE]

Good morning,

With many professional road teams taking clinchers seriously I am expecting a few years of new tyre and tube announcements. In my mind there isn't really a dominant tyre brand so if xyz wins all the Grand Tours they could easily end up on all Treks and Specialised so there is a lot at stake.

Given this it would follow that initially the announcements will be mostly race level equipment, and it is certainly possible that there will no trickle down technology. Tubulars never made it onto mass production bikes and got dropped from most mid and top of the range bikes aimed at the enthusiastic rider quite a few years ago.

However I do struggle to understand how an inner tube makes so much difference, unless this difference only really applies to super light road tyres that only last a few hundred miles and were designed requiring that the inner tube would provide part of their structural strength.

The real worry would be that this material becomes dominant as the few factories that make inner tubes decide that they only want to make one type of tube and repairable inner tubes slowly disappear from the market. The LBS ends up only stocking the un repairable tubes, Wilko/Halfords etc. are out out stock with repairable tubes and we all end up ordering them by post from someone who has them in stock.

Bye

Ian

 

[fatjel]

Lighter inner tubes can’t be a bad thing with two in tyres and 2+ as spares
Who repairs inner tubes these days ?
And tubeless users might not be interested.
Bit pricy tho

 

[hatler]

Lighter inner tubes can’t be a bad thing with two in tyres and 2+ as spares
Who repairs inner tubes these days ?
And tubeless users might not be interested.
Bit pricy tho

Me.

 

[HLaB]

I wish foldable tyres were consistently that cheap. I've occasionally picked them up cheaper but not often 😐

 

[hatler]

I wonder if it's a by-product of having parents who experienced rationing.

 

[T4tomo]

I struggle to get my head around the concept of an inner tube being more puncture resistant than another. if a piece of flint, glass, metal etc has made it through a tyre with 3mm of rubber and a kelvar band*, then I'm pretty sure its going to make a hole in the inner tube? Unless it is somehow just more resistant to pinch punctures? Or have I missed something?

*or what ever puncture protection is built into the tyre

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

More pretentious twaddle from these biking magazines.Why are they always going on about "saving a few grams" when the majority of the public who ride bikes don't give a s**t?

 

[Milkfloat]

More pretentious twaddle from these biking magazines.Why are they always going on about "saving a few grams" when the majority of the public who ride bikes don't give a s**t?

If they did give a s**t just before they went out for a ride, they would be even lighter. Some of mine would be a danger to shipping if they made it as far as the Channel.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

That's my take on it obviously some people will disagree.That's what debate is all about.

 

[DCLane]

Could be because this is a specialist racing product aimed at people who do care about such things? Pro teams have been moving to using clinchers+tubes more and more recently.

I like reading about what the professional athletes use. I find it interesting. But on the other hand I ride a big lump of a steel bike with a rack. I don't see any contradiction there.

For the standard road / hybrid bikes myself and my son use we've just got standard inner tubes. I think they tend to be Vavert ones but tbh they're whatever I bought in bulk with the correct valve length for the wheels.

However ... when it comes to TT's / track / road racing it's entirely different. We'll test and try different things there to see whether a tube / tyre / wheel offers an improvement. There's some trickle-down to the rest of the bikes, but not much.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Pro teams have been moving to using clinchers+tubes more and more recently

Tyre manufacturers have been trying to shift the pro peloton onto clinchers since the mid eighties because tubulars have no commercial value but the teams and riders have resisted. It is only now with the advent of tubeless clinchers that some riders have been persuaded to try them.

 

[rogerzilla]

I used to race on latex tubes - but they couldn't be repaired well. Not that sort of money though.

That's odd, because they take patches much better than butyl tubes. The rubber solution adheres better to latex. I've patched one that had a big hole (a gash that scrapped the tyre) and it's fine two years later.

 

[fossyant]

That's odd, because they take patches much better than butyl tubes. The rubber solution adheres better to latex. I've patched one that had a big hole (a gash that scrapped the tyre) and it's fine two years later.

You might be right - as they were race tubes I just binned them ! Didn't get enough punctures to worry about a £10 tube TBH.