Mickle's tip of the day - Inner tubes

[Cubist]

But hey this is marketing

So Mickle now has the North of England Lavender talc franchise sewn up. Never mind ****ing Tesco and their uber aggressive monopoly policies , he's the one the crusties need to keep an eye on.

FFS

 

[Fiona N]

Before you install your next inner tube dust the inside if the tyre with talcum powder.

Any flavour will do, I like lavander very much.

There's an article on setting up your own home workshop on Cyclorama by Geoff Apps and me which might be of interest.

I prefer Johnson's Baby talc myself.


It's also good if your hands are a bit sweaty before you attempt to get a pair of vinyl gloves on (remember latex gloves are not impermeable to solvents, so if protecting you skin from solvents is what you're after, you'll need vinyl gloves - also keep your finger nails cleaner too when undertaking all these bike maintenance tasks )

 

[MossCommuter]

try to avoid breathing it, it may be a carcinogen

WHAT?!?!

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[gbb]

And don't put your innertubes through the washing machine...like wot her indoors did

We were both stood in the kitchen, the wife opened the machine door...and an innertube fell out, still wet

'Huh'.....we looked at each other and laughed. It'd been hanging over the low fence just outside the back door, same place as the dogs blanket she'd put out earlier, prior to wash. She's picked them both up together without realising.

 

[slowmotion]

Finally, a use for all those Brut 33 sets my granny buys me every Christmas. Or at least it's the Talc used up, what can I do with all the aftershave?

Chain de-greaser?

 

[youngoldbloke]

Always used it - and don't foget to dust around newly applied patches too - (thats what the little white 'chalk' in your puncture kit is made from), tyres go back on the rim more easily as well - another Johnsons Baby Powder fan!

 

[david1701]

wow I never knew any of this

 

[PorkyPies]

Seriously? It won't affect rolling resistance greatly, so you won't feel a difference. If you talc your tubes for extra performance, you need to MTFU and train more.

 

[Bman]

Seriously? It won't affect rolling resistance greatly, so you won't feel a difference. If you talc your tubes for extra performance, you need to MTFU and train more.

This!

(saying that, Mickle's tip is still a good'un )

 

[subaqua]

just be careful with the ingredients of the talc. if it says parfum on it do not use it on rubber. it will perish it. years of bad experiences with dry suit neck and wrist seals and talc have proved this to me. ( and a huge amount of the diving community too)

 

[Fnaar]

'Talcum' is also good for rhyming with 'Malcolm' in poetry and suchlike.

 

[gbb]

'Talcum' is also good for rhyming with 'Malcolm' in poetry and suchlike.

Useful as ever eh !!!

 

[mickle]

Seriously? It won't affect rolling resistance greatly, so you won't feel a difference. If you talc your tubes for extra performance, you need to MTFU and train more.

Thanks for your valuable contribution.

 

[Rob3rt]

Got to say Mickle, I would tend to agree with him in the context of thinking it would save you any worthwhile energy or provide any speed gain etc. But in terms of longevity of tubes, I would agree with you thats its worthwhile. I fix my tubes and re-use them, I'm not one for throwing tubes away as soon as they have a pin prick hole in them, so longer lasting tubes is always good. But I'd probly replace the tube when fitting a new tyre, even if the tube was okay (I'd hang onto it as a spare in my saddle pack).

 

[mickle]

Surely it goes without being said that the performance advantage of a talced tube over an untalced tube does not feature very highly on the great list of things which allow cyclists to go faster.