Andrew_P
In between here and there
Anyone had any problems with these, I bought two from Cycle Surgery.
Puncture on the way home, fair enough not had one for a while. Quick inspection of tyre nothing in it.
So out with the new Continental tube, in it goes no pinches. screw on my Lezyne road drive pump it up, undo it wtf it unscrews the valve. Now I am struggling to get it out of the pump a lot of faffing (pliers is about the only thing I do not carry) get it out put the pump on around the other way, but every pump you can hear a little air escaping which is a little moral sapping.
Anyway I get up to around 80 psi, 4 miles from home and set off, 150 yards up the road it is flat. So toss that one back in the ruck sack for later inspection. This time I strip the tyre off and turn it inside out looking and feeling for anything sharp, I then completly wipe and check the outside nothing there check the rim for a spoke or some such. So I put the other one on, set off 150 yard and it is completely flat again.
I have given up and have now phoned home and said that I was going to walk home cleats an all.
500 yards later and another cyclist stops (THANK YOU! A 23 Northbound in case you are on here )and insists on giving me a spare tube. I was resisting thinking it must be something I missed. Anyway decided to give it a go. In goes his specialized tube couldn't even be arsed to get it rock solid as I wasn't expecting it to last,not only did it last all the way home its still up now..
Is there any point in being able to unscrew the valve, and what is the point in having thread on the vlave stem if all its going to do is unscrew the valve when you take off the pump?
My dilema is I have five bought from Wiggle sitting upstairs, and I tried one in the screw pump and when I unscrewed out came the valve... looked on wiggle and there are people moaning about these tubes about rvery third review, mostly similar to my problems.
Puncture on the way home, fair enough not had one for a while. Quick inspection of tyre nothing in it.
So out with the new Continental tube, in it goes no pinches. screw on my Lezyne road drive pump it up, undo it wtf it unscrews the valve. Now I am struggling to get it out of the pump a lot of faffing (pliers is about the only thing I do not carry) get it out put the pump on around the other way, but every pump you can hear a little air escaping which is a little moral sapping.
Anyway I get up to around 80 psi, 4 miles from home and set off, 150 yards up the road it is flat. So toss that one back in the ruck sack for later inspection. This time I strip the tyre off and turn it inside out looking and feeling for anything sharp, I then completly wipe and check the outside nothing there check the rim for a spoke or some such. So I put the other one on, set off 150 yard and it is completely flat again.
I have given up and have now phoned home and said that I was going to walk home cleats an all.
500 yards later and another cyclist stops (THANK YOU! A 23 Northbound in case you are on here )and insists on giving me a spare tube. I was resisting thinking it must be something I missed. Anyway decided to give it a go. In goes his specialized tube couldn't even be arsed to get it rock solid as I wasn't expecting it to last,not only did it last all the way home its still up now..
Is there any point in being able to unscrew the valve, and what is the point in having thread on the vlave stem if all its going to do is unscrew the valve when you take off the pump?
My dilema is I have five bought from Wiggle sitting upstairs, and I tried one in the screw pump and when I unscrewed out came the valve... looked on wiggle and there are people moaning about these tubes about rvery third review, mostly similar to my problems.