Yep, just gotta pay attention that any presta tubes I buy have removable cores.
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The Finnish line doesn’t dry out. Take the ss off the peg after six months and it’s still got pressure
Have you seen any XT or XTR cranks with same issues or is it limited to hollow road stuff?
I’ve been using Muc-Off tube specific sealant in my one tubed tire. Haven’t flatted it yet.
What are commuter e-bike folks doing? I’ve been on tubes since purchase, but keep waffling.
BMX tubes with slime in them?
Do e-bike people think about wheel/tire weight to try to increase mileage on their battery?
I’ve done tubes + goop for all my ebikes. The only time that has gone wrong for me was after losing track of time and wondering why the Orange Seal endurance wasn’t sealing two small goat head punctures. Even though that stuff seems/seemed to last longer for me in tubes, it turns out that sealant was 2 years old and completely dried out.
Now I keep track on my phone of what sealant is in which bike and what date it was injected.
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did we just invent the slime tire?
ive never done this but I’m going to give it a go
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Get the Finnish line stuff. I put the e-bike together in February and I just added air for the first time after commuting omit every day
Specifically the original non-latex Finish Line formulation which can be hard to find now as it’s been discontinued. The new / current formulation is latex and may not be much different from any of the other latex competitors.
Or maybe just get the Muc-Off tube stuff Rudy mentioned above.
Why SIR!
How dare you imply that someone my age can’t learn how to manage new technology!!
Now, if you’ll excuse me I, uh, just remembered I need to, um, go do something to my bike.
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I’m 51 and last week the 60 year old guy I was riding with kinda shamed me because I had tubes on my road bike. My other bikes are tube-free but when I went to tubelessify my road bike I realized I needed another wrap or two of tape and said fuck it.
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Someone’s gonna need a lawyer for that case.
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Considering that bike is 10 years old, they will have a hard time making a case for manufacturers defect.
It is a double entendre. That bike definitely cased a jump prior to its unscheduled disassembly while JRA.
Some of the stuff I sell has a 10 year warranty against manufacturers defects. There is absolutely no case where someone can claim a manufacturers defect showed up seven years later
This. We had someone bring a 20-year-old Litespeed in once with a crack for warranty. Litespeed said, “Things wear out; if that was a bad weld, it would have broken over a decade ago”. I wish more companies would just stop with the lifetime warranty thing in favor of a time that better reflects the bike’s intended life cycle. But in light of that, 5 years is really all a frame should get IMO.
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I’m having a very hard time agreeing with you on this.
Titanium has a fatigue limit, properly designed it should stay below that limit and not crack in normal use. Just because it took 20 years for the stresses to accumulate does not make it really any different than if it took 5 or 10 years. (Aluminum is a different story).
If I’m buying a new bike and the MFR says “don’t expect this to last you more than 5 years” they can fuck right off.
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