Inner tubes - to talc or not to talc?

[mickle]

Ooooh, I think we have a controversy, ladies and gentlemen!

This could run and run, just like the "Do you grease square taper bottom bracket axles?" one

Here we go again!


I shall require a run up.

 

[barq]

Ooooh, I think we have a controversy, ladies and gentlemen!

This could run and run, just like the "Do you grease square taper bottom bracket axles?" one

Can we do the one about spoke tension and whether hubs hang or 'stand'? It's been nearly a year now...

 

[threefingerjoe]

OOO! OOO! Let's do "slicks vs. treaded tires on roadbikes!" ;-)

 

[jimboalee]

Shall we discuss "Saddlebag vs Backpack".

 

[NickM]

Shall we discuss "Saddlebag vs Backpack".

Bah! Everybody knows the Correct Answer to that one, surely?

By the way, jimboalee, do you grease square tapers? A one word answer will suffice

 

[jimboalee]

Let me think.....

I use NGK/NTK's Oxygen ( UEGO ) sensor Anti seize compound.

This will please both camps, because its not grease, and its not dry.

 

[dellzeqq]

Right. I'm with Mickle. Some of you will know that I organise a night ride. Punctures are rare, but when they occur the Tail End Charlies stop and help the puncturee. We have a routine.

Take wheel off, take tyre off, rip out innertube, check tyre for foreign bodies.
Take innertube proffered by puncturee and discard
Take innertube from my pack and insert. This is a Specialized red packet jobby which comes pre-talced.
Life is too short to be messing with sticky innertubes (particularly if it's raining) and you have 40 people waiting up the road.

 

[DaveP]

Let me think.....

I use NGK/NTK's Oxygen ( UEGO ) sensor Anti seize compound.

This will please both camps, because its not grease, and its not dry.

But do you use a torque wrench after the application of the compound

 

[fossyant]

I talc, and have always done - never a problem - helps stop pinch punctures, and makes tube fitting and removal much faster.

 

[jimboalee]

But do you use a torque wrench after the application of the compound

Nope.

Hit with a leather mallet.
Tighten home with a steel bolt before putting the alloy bolt in.

The tommy bar on the extractor tool is enough.

 

[Dave5N]

Torque wrenches on bikes are for the terminally cautious or the incompetent or the autistic obsessives.

 

[MacB]

Torque wrenches on bikes are for the terminally cautious or the incompetent or the autistic obsessives.

hastily removes torque wrench from wish list on Wiggle account

 

[mickle]

Torque wrenches...

We don't have one, never felt the need.

Nor for a leather mallet or a tommy bar funnily enough.

 

[mickle]

What is a tommy bar?

 

[jimboalee]

What is a tommy bar?

On the front end of your bench vice, there is the end of the lead screw shaft. There is a hole through it with a shaft of steel which slides up and down. The shaft of steel has raised ends to stop it slipping straight out.

The sliding shaft of steel is a "Tommy bar".