Not to be just a 'me too', but me too! When I first bought my Sprite with
wire wheels, my upper body bulked up as I was constantly pumping the tires
with my bike pump. It's a daily driver and it got to where I was pumping
both ways (office and home). Took it to a quality tire shop (does a lot of
racer work and weekend racer support) and they showed me first-hand the
difference between the el cheapos on the car as bought and quality, correct
ones. No comparison - spend the few extra bucks and don't look back. That
was two years and 15k miles ago. No problems at all.
Jeff
Allen wrote:
>I had a steady stream of filed innertubes on my wire-wheeled Bs until about
>two years ago. I had been using those "one-size-fits-all" tubes commonly
>available in most tire stores - presuming they were all that's available.
>Well you can get real Brit-made 165-14 tubes - they're about double the
>rubber thickness of the junk in the stores, and they FIT. No unseen
>wrinles/creases that inevitably fail - especially on interstates.
>
>' Haven't had a flat since I switched. ' Guess I better knock on rubber!
>
Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
Senior Editor, Molecular Vision
http://www.emory.edu/molvis
"Seeing the Future in a Very Tiny Way"
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