Any comments or opinions? I'm kind of hoping that with the tyres and these tubes that punctures will be virtually a thing of the past, and I certainly don't relish taking the tyre off and refitting it in the pouring rain.
Any comments or opinions? I'm kind of hoping that with the tyres and these tubes that punctures will be virtually a thing of the past, and I certainly don't relish taking the tyre off and refitting it in the pouring rain.
They do work, and the extra weight at the rim is only noticed if you accelerate fast.
"Mark T" <pleasegivegenerously@warmail*turn_up_the_heat_to_reply*.com.invalid> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Any comments or opinions? I'm kind of hoping that with the tyres and these tubes that punctures will be virtually a thing of the past, and I certainly don't relish taking the tyre off and refitting it in the pouring rain.
They do work, and the extra weight at the rim is only noticed if you accelerate fast.
Not terrible impressed with the ones that I fitted to my puncture prone son's bikeseveral years ago. For larger punctures, the stuff leaked out made a mess of the tube and made repairs rather difficult, It might work well with small thorn-type punctures. They lasted less than a month befopre I resorted to keeping a stock of spare tubes and rotating them (sic) through his bike.
Paul, I suspect that the Marathon + will be enough puncture prevention. I have them on a few of our utility and electric bikes and no punctures so far, despite glass and thorns.
Any comments or opinions? I'm kind of hoping that with the tyres and these tubes that punctures will be virtually a thing of the past, and I certainly don't relish taking the tyre off and refitting it in the pouring rain.
From my experience, slime inner-tubes introduce more problems than they solve. You've probably already eradicated any reasonable chance of a getting a puncture just by fitting the MPs, so really any quality normal tube should do - Schwalbes are a reasonable price and have a simple and consistent naming scheme for valves and dimensions (which I like).
A new puncture proof tyre is hard to fit the first time it goes on the rim, but after its done some miles, something happens - and you can re- fit it with your bare hands.
Any comments or opinions? I'm kind of hoping that with the tyres and these tubes that punctures will be virtually a thing of the past, and I certainly don't relish taking the tyre off and refitting it in the pouring rain.
They do work,
sometimes,
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and the extra weight at the rim is only noticed if you accelerate fast.
That's true, but it's a bit sad to add even more weight to an already extremely heavy tyre, for little advantage and possibly some hassle.
I get the message! I'd also done a bit more reading on the net since posting, and decided not to bother with Slime. I've ordered some Schwalbe tubes instead.
....and this morning I decided I definitely needed smaller tubes. I thought I'd stuffed the original tube back in evenly, but apparently not. Bumpity-bump - back home - get the car...
Any comments or opinions? I'm kind of hoping that with the tyres and these tubes that punctures will be virtually a thing of the past, and I certainly don't relish taking the tyre off and refitting it in the pouring rain.
SM+ are very puncture proof, slime tubes would be gilding the lily. Once you've got them on you're unlikely to need to mess with them on the roadside.
Yes they are hard to get on the first time, which also makes it hard not to pinch the tube. When new tyres are being tricky I've taken to initially mounting them with no tube, then taking them off again on one side, putting the tube in and refitting. They seem to go on much easier the second time.
When new tyres are being tricky I've taken to initially mounting them with no tube, then taking them off again on one side, putting the tube in and refitting. They seem to go on much easier the second time.
Any comments or opinions? I'm kind of hoping that with the tyres and these tubes that punctures will be virtually a thing of the past, and I certainly don't relish taking the tyre off and refitting it in the pouring rain.
SM+ are very puncture proof, slime tubes would be gilding the lily. Once you've got them on you're unlikely to need to mess with them on the roadside.
Yes they are hard to get on the first time, which also makes it hard not to pinch the tube. When new tyres are being tricky I've taken to initially mounting them with no tube, then taking them off again on one side, putting the tube in and refitting. They seem to go on much easier the second time.
I must admit the my ( then ) new Thorn Raven Tour came fitted ( I asked for 'em) with Marathon Plus but I had no difficulty in removing or replacing the rear tyre when I replaced 2 broken spokes ( that is the "royal I" --my LBS who fitted the spokes and retrued the wheel). I confess that I was surprised how easy it was having read about various difficulties at different times on here
-- Trevor A Panther In South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. www.tapan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Trevor A Panther said the following on 05/12/2007 15:32:
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I must admit the my ( then ) new Thorn Raven Tour came fitted ( I asked for 'em) with Marathon Plus but I had no difficulty in removing or replacing the rear tyre when I replaced 2 broken spokes ( that is the "royal I" --my LBS who fitted the spokes and retrued the wheel). I confess that I was surprised how easy it was having read about various difficulties at different times on here
The Schwalbe website has a handy technical document that I read last night, and it goes into great detail about manufacturing tolerances of wheels and rims, as well as design tolerances. Marathon Plus and Mavic A319 rims must be at opposite extremes of tolerance :-)
