Very boring - Recommend me some inner tubes

Thelittlesthobo
Thelittlesthobo Posts: 184
edited June 2011 in Road beginners
I know its not a big purchase etc etc. I have a Trek 1.5 road bike which i am really happy with. As a newcomer to road cycling (Injury rehab recommended) i dont have spare inner tubes for it. I ready have a C02 pump from my mountain biking days so i need some spare tubes.

I dont want tubes that puncture every couple of miles because they are so thin they cant handle a bit of commuting. Is there any recomendations for a good alround (Lightish) tube.

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  • Thelittlesthobo
    Thelittlesthobo Posts: 184
    10 views no recommendations :-(
  • agent_buchwald
    agent_buchwald Posts: 256
    I've never had any sort of problem with specialized tubes but have just bought some Michelin which are lovely, as far as tubes go - avoid latex but they would be my recommendations.
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  • outcastjack
    outcastjack Posts: 237
    Another vote for Michelins, i have them on my bike and have had no trouble at all.

    (just the standard ones that cost about 4quid a piece)
  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    To be fair, as long as you have tyres with good p*ncture protection then most tubes (even shops own brand ones) will be fine.

    If a shard of glass makes it through your tyre then the tube will burst if its a £3 tube or a £30 one.
  • danowat
    danowat Posts: 2,877
    Whatever you can find, normally go for Conti tubes myself as they are cheap.
  • petemadoc
    petemadoc Posts: 2,331
    Whenever I'm buying a bit of kit like some shorts or whatever I always look for some tubes to add to my basket. My buying choice goes like this.

    Go to the tubes section, sort by price lowest to highest, scroll down to the first brand I recognise which will usually be on sale for about 3-4 quid, make sure they have the right size, make sure they're not unusually heavy . . . . add to basket.

    If you're just buying tubes on their own then check out the pack of 10 deals, Ribble have conti and vittoria at £23 ish which makes them uber cheap

    par example

    http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/road-t ... ONTTUBE400
  • Thelittlesthobo
    Thelittlesthobo Posts: 184
    Thanks for the link
  • Richa1181
    Richa1181 Posts: 177
    Ribble is always a good choice for tubes. I got 10 Conti's for £22.50 when I bought some Rego, you pretty much get at least 20% off everything when you spend over £35 and they were half price anyway so you can't really go wrong

    But as Ollieda said, tyres with good puncture protection are more important than tubes and I agree with this 100% :)
  • guv
    guv Posts: 3
    Evans are doing specialized tubes for £2.49 at the moment:

    http://www.evanscycles.com/products/spe ... e-ec001873
  • Thelittlesthobo
    Thelittlesthobo Posts: 184
    Just ordered a couple of those spesh tube. Thanks
  • SCR Pedro
    SCR Pedro Posts: 912
    guv wrote:
    Evans are doing specialized tubes for £2.49 at the moment:

    http://www.evanscycles.com/products/spe ... e-ec001873

    It's no wonder why. I HATE these tubes. For me, they always fail at the joints shaped like a +, making them very hard to repair. I'm not talking about a puncture either, they are just a crap design and fall apart.

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  • D4RK1
    D4RK1 Posts: 49
    ive just ordered some michelin ones for £2.60 from ribble.
  • inaperfectworld
    inaperfectworld Posts: 219
    I have had trouble with valves splitting away from the tube: I know it has happened with a variety of makes of tubes. when i did some research people seemed most confident about Schwalbe. Since I have used Schwalbe tubes but also followed the suggestion to cut a disc of old inner tube, punch a hole in the middle and place over valve before refitting tube. i've had no problem since, but whether it is the Schwalbe tubes or the disc I couldn't say. Other advice was to screwe down the ring when inlating the tyre so as to fix it, but in normal use to loosen the screw ring so of there is movement of the tube it isn't gooing to pull away from ther valve.
    Bit off topic, but useful info I think
  • ptr_
    ptr_ Posts: 126
    SCR Pedro wrote:
    guv wrote:
    Evans are doing specialized tubes for £2.49 at the moment:

    http://www.evanscycles.com/products/spe ... e-ec001873

    It's no wonder why. I HATE these tubes. For me, they always fail at the joints shaped like a +, making them very hard to repair. I'm not talking about a puncture either, they are just a crap design and fall apart.
    I've found this as well, but it's only happened to me a few times over a lot of mileage.
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    These:
    http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=20485
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  • richa
    richa Posts: 1,632
    I favour Continental or Bontrager.
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Was packing 2 tubes into my saddle bag at the weekend, I have some continentals and Vittorias. It occurred to me that the Vittoria ones (that someone recommended sold by Ribble) are 700x19/23 - this makes them a lot smaller and easier to get into a small saddle bag than the continentals.

    Small bonus anyway.....

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