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happyslug

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10. I have run Presta tubes in Scharader holes with no probems.

Sat Feb 14, 2015, 11:53 AM

Feb 2015

I suspect because I opt for inner tubes with thicker walls that make the difference. Just a comment that part of the problem may be the inner tubes you were using.

Since the 1960s, inner tubes walls have become thinner. The push for this is rom racers, the thinner the tube, the lighter the tube and rotational weight is more crictial then stationary weight elsewhere on the bike. This desire for thinner tubes have spread to tubes used by you and me. In the last ten years I have seen a patial reversal in that some tubes are being sold with thicker walls at a premium price. It is one solution this the problem of to many flats.

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