Hi Had a bit of a problem yesterday, luckly i was home and not in the middle of nowhere. I recently bought a rans tailwind 2001 model new from a LBS, got a good deal. Of course with all the mods I'm up to the original price by now.
Anyway on friday I bought a larger rear tire 1.95 (it came with comets 1.35). Installed the tire sunday afternoon with the original tubes (i should have known better) not a tube made for the larger tire. About 930pm sunday night i hear a whooossss. Sure enough a tube failure. So I remove the wheel and tire and put in a new tube with a comet 1.35 not wanting to have another tube fail on me.
To my extreme surprise the new tube would not fit in the rim adapter. Had to take the bus to work and home today.
Could have been much worse, could have been in the middle of no where with not a tube to fit the bike. BTW could i use a presta tube on a rim drilled for schrader without an adapter??
Could have been much worse, could have been in the middle of no where with not a tube to fit the bike. BTW could i use a presta tube on a rim drilled for schrader without an adapter??
There's a rubber bushing made to take up the space. I've bought a couple of Presta tubes that came with them, but they can be had separately from several sources including:
I have also used a thin general-purpose grommet of the appropriate size; 1/4"IDx3/8"OD. All it does is keep the Presta stem centered in the hole and prevent chafing of the tube at the base of the valve. -- Typoes are a feature, not a bug. Some gardening required to reply via email. Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.
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Hi Had a bit of a problem yesterday, luckly i was home and not in the middle of nowhere. I recently bought a rans tailwind 2001 model new from a LBS, got a good deal. Of course with all the mods I'm up to the original price by now.
Anyway on friday I bought a larger rear tire 1.95 (it came with comets 1.35). Installed the tire sunday afternoon with the original tubes (i should have known better) not a tube made for the larger tire. About 930pm sunday night i hear a whooossss. Sure enough a tube failure. So I remove the wheel and tire and put in a new tube with a comet 1.35 not wanting to have another tube fail on me.
To my extreme surprise the new tube would not fit in the rim adapter. Had to take the bus to work and home today.
Could have been much worse, could have been in the middle of no where with not a tube to fit the bike. BTW could i use a presta tube on a rim drilled for schrader without an adapter??
Anyone else have this problem??
Yes, I have had this problem, or something similar when I flatted and discovered that my brass adapter had corroded to the valve stem, and I couldn't separate tube and rim. In my experience, you can use presta tubes in schraeder drilled rims without any adapter, I have several bikes like this, since wheels came drilled that way and I don't like having to carry both types of tubes.
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Hi Had a bit of a problem yesterday, luckly i was home and not in the middle of nowhere. I recently bought a rans tailwind 2001 model new from
a
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LBS, got a good deal. Of course with all the mods I'm up to the original price by now.
Anyway on friday I bought a larger rear tire 1.95 (it came with comets 1.35). Installed the tire sunday afternoon with the original tubes (i
should
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have known better) not a tube made for the larger tire. About 930pm
sunday
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night i hear a whooossss. Sure enough a tube failure. So I remove the
wheel
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and tire and put in a new tube with a comet 1.35 not wanting to have
another
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tube fail on me.
To my extreme surprise the new tube would not fit in the rim adapter.
Had to
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take the bus to work and home today.
Could have been much worse, could have been in the middle of no where
with
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not a tube to fit the bike. BTW could i use a presta tube on a rim
drilled
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for schrader without an adapter??
Anyone else have this problem??
Yes, I have had this problem, or something similar when I flatted and discovered that my brass adapter had corroded to the valve stem, and I couldn't separate tube and rim. In my experience, you can use presta tubes
in
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schraeder drilled rims without any adapter, I have several bikes like
this,
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since wheels came drilled that way and I don't like having to carry both
types
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of tubes.
Cool, thanks. I was worried that maybe the tube would try to squeeze out through the schrader size hole.
