Tubes

[qcridgerunner]

Getting the bike ready for Europe and my mechanic replaced the stock tube of my front TKC80 with a super heavy duty one. I had no clue that the difference was so huge ! That tube is very thick! He says that it reduces the risk of a puncture by a large margin. And he put a heavy duty for my K60 in the back (had no super heavy for that diameter). Again : quite thicker. Posters here rarely mention the tubes in the "tire equation" here. Why ?

 

[Q plate]

tubes

FWIW...I wanted to put 'heavy duty' tubes in when I replaced my tyres but was advised against it by 2 tyre places due to the 'excess heat' generation caused if I planned to do mostly 'road miles' which I do so I went along with it

 

[qcridgerunner]

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346381

Found this. Thanks for the tip.

 

[casperghst42]

Not so much a heat issue, more like if you have a puncture the patches will not stick on heavy duty tubes...


Casper

 

[Timolgra]

FWIW...I wanted to put 'heavy duty' tubes in when I replaced my tyres but was advised against it by 2 tyre places due to the 'excess heat' generation caused if I planned to do mostly 'road miles' which I do so I went along with it

That because what heavy duty tubes are good at is helping prevent compression punctures (snake bites) caused by hitting rocks with low tyre pressure.

Excessive heat is unlikely to cause a problem in real life, just in the theoretical one

I use HD tubes in all my bikes that have tubed tyres