Tesco inner tubes- yes or no?

Northwind

Half the threads in here are either about bikes that cost more than my motorbike, or forks that cost more than my mountain bike, so I thought I'd start a thread about a product that costs less than a pint 8)

Tesco's sells inner tubes now, for the princely sum of £1.20. I've picked up a couple to carry or place as spares- one at my brother's flat, one at work, etc. But just because of the price, I'm not that inclined to trust them for proper riding. Just wondering if anyone's given them a fair go, and how they worked out?

supersonic

Go for it! Many expensive ones are the same thing.

Look online, and at wholealers, can get boxes of 20 for about 10 quid.

Northwind

Groovy, I'll give 'em a go then. Ta!

.blitz

Northwind wrote:

Tesco's sells inner tubes now, for the princely sum of £1.20.

So my son's mate was telling me just before his Tesco BMX tube exploded at 80 psi :shock:

Yorkshirepadd

Are they doing Presta valves ?

Northwind wrote:

Half the threads in here are either about bikes that cost more than my motorbike, or forks that cost more than my mountain bike, so I thought I'd start a thread about a product that costs less than a pint 8)

Tesco's sells inner tubes now, for the princely sum of £1.20. I've picked up a couple to carry or place as spares- one at my brother's flat, one at work, etc. But just because of the price, I'm not that inclined to trust them for proper riding. Just wondering if anyone's given them a fair go, and how they worked out?

chuckd

Yorkshirepadd wrote:

Are they doing Presta valves ?

The ones I have seen in tesco are schrader valves, I couldn't see any presta in my local store.

Big Red S

.blitz wrote:

Northwind wrote:

Tesco's sells inner tubes now, for the princely sum of £1.20.

So my son's mate was telling me just before his Tesco BMX tube exploded at 80 psi

That'd be a problem with the tyre or possibly the rim, though.

That's the handy thing with innertubes. All they've got to do is be airtight. The tyre and rim deal with the pressures.

Northwind

I think they had 26" prestas in my local branch, I wasn't really looking to be honest.

Rich9

i've just bought 2 from Decathlon for the princely sum of £1.95. They were on BOGOF. Dont know if they'll be any good but worth a gamble I thought