Gwylan
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Supplementary question.
How do you roll or fold your inner tubes?
Flat, in a roll? How do you expel all the air etc
How do you roll or fold your inner tubes?
Flat, in a roll? How do you expel all the air etc
Do you label your inner tubes??
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Fab Foodie
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That's a whole new thread right there!
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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Suck air out, fold and make sure the valve is tucked away.
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matticus
Guru
Efficiently.
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matticus
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Will it survive welsh/scottish rain?
PaulSB
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figbat
Slippery scientist
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I use a chalk pen to mark the tubes. In my fleet I have:
700C x 28mm
700C x 35mm
700C x 40mm
29 x 2.4"
27.5 x 2.2"
26 x 1.95"
24 x ?? (can't remember)
20 x 1 3/8"
Labelling tubes is imperative, especially if we go out for a family ride and I have to carry all the spares - there's usually at least three different tyre sizes if we do that. Some of the above are set up tubeless but I always carry a tube anyway (so far never had to use one).
Alex321
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I only have two bikes, one with 700c x 28 and the other with 700c x 38 tyres. The one with the narrower tyres also has fairly deep section rims, so needs 40mm+ valve stems, while the other is old-style standard depth, so it is fairly clear which bike any tube goes with.
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Alex321
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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You do know most tubes have the size printed on, OK it's usually folded away, but visually they can be quite different.
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matticus
Guru
But if they're quite similar - as clearly shown in the post you quoted - you need to read the size. Which - as you correctly state - is
usually folded away.
Is this really as hard to understand as you're making out? If the OP just had a pile of really skinny tubes, and a pile of really fat ones with a different type of valve, there wouldn't be an issue, would there?!?
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
But if they're quite similar - as clearly shown in the post you quoted - you need to read the size. Which - as you correctly state - is
usually folded away.
Is this really as hard to understand as you're making out? If the OP just had a pile of really skinny tubes, and a pile of really fat ones with a different type of valve, there wouldn't be an issue, would there?!?
I have a suggestion. It's a bit crazy, but hear me out.
Why don't you try labelling your inner tubes, so you know which is which?
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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He does !
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
I get round the different sizes with unused tubes still in boxes in the garage. Tubes in use (as spares) either sit in a different rucksack/camelbak for both MTB's. Road bikes take same tubes so that doesn't matter. The 26" tubes sit in either my panniers or a rucksack I use for that bike. The 27.5's are in a camelbak as that bike is used for totally different stuff (so more kit in that pack as I usually do longer/more off grid rides). Then both road bikes just have the same tube/puncture pack I take out with me.
