Are all inner tubes created equal?

slap/dash

Had a couple flats a while back and a couple of slow punctures (on a different bike)

In both cases, the tubes were conti butyl.

I'd never really had issues when using specialized pre talc d ones. Is butyl not that great or what? I do think that the valves on the contis are suspect.

So I guess looking for heads up re good inners to use

macnab

I haven't used the butyl tubes but I have used the Continental supersonic ultra light tubes. In my experience they are very fragile. I got a pinch puncture once having hit a small bit of excess tarmac on the road. A Conti GP4000s tyre blew off my Zipp rim due to blowout on a brand new supersonic tube, luckily the bike was on a work stand at the time. The only puncture I have had in the last 10,000km was a perforation on the rim side of a supersonic.
I use Vittoria Road tubes, they are not too heavy at 80g but I have never had a problem with them other than a standard puncture. Just for the record I use GP4000s tyres on all my bikes.

slap/dash

macnab wrote: »

I haven't used the butyl tubes but I have used the Continental supersonic ultra light tubes. In my experience they are very fragile. I got a pinch puncture once having hit a small bit of excess tarmac on the road. A Conti GP4000s tyre blew off my Zipp rim due to blowout on a brand new supersonic tube, luckily the bike was on a work stand at the time. The only puncture I have had in the last 10,000km was a perforation on the rim side of a supersonic.
I use Vittoria Road tubes, they are not too heavy at 80g but I have never had a problem with them other than a standard puncture. Just for the record I use GP4000s tyres on all my bikes.

Good to know

I've been pickin up the contis when buying 4000s and 4seasons online. That'll teach me. I'll grab a few of the vittoria, thanks

Cee-Jay-Cee

I have over 3000kms on a pair of Hutchinson tubes puncture free. I've probably jinxed them now!

Borderfox

3 for €10 in Halfords, tubes are tubes, spend your money on good tyres

Lumen

AFAIK all tubes are butyl, apart from the latex ones (but you'd know if you were buying those).

slap/dash

Lumen wrote: »

AFAIK all tubes are butyl, apart from the latex ones (but you'd know if you were buying those).

So I guess it's more about the valves? The regular conti valves: do not like

Lumen

slap/dash wrote: »

So I guess it's more about the valves? The regular conti valves: do not like

I'm a bit racist towards Conti valves too. I keep meaning to buy some without removable cores but I can never be bothered to find them.

Inquitus

Tubes is tubes to me.