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Re: [Spridgets] Source for Wire Wheels

To: Dean Hedin <dlh2001@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Source for Wire Wheels
From: Brad Fornal <tequila.brad@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:16:46 -0600
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Delivered-to: mharc@autox.team.net
Delivered-to: spridgets@autox.team.net
References: <50B58890.4050907@bellsouth.net> <15F4C3E9D9C84DC5AF80B76BE965919C@leosHP> <D66A4980615B4E488D902D71642489DF@blackbox2>
There are no longer any decent bicycle inner tubes any more. I have
purchased barn find bikes, that the tubes will STILL hold air. Buy a tube
from Wal-Mart, or an expensive bike shop, and either of them will leak down
in 2 to 3 weeks.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Dean Hedin <dlh2001@comcast.net> wrote:

> Yep,
>
> The best inner tubes are, Kenda, Michelin, and those really exspensive ones
> from the
> UK that have the outside threads on the valvestem so you can lock the
> valvestem into position.
>
> NAPA used to sell the Kenda's at a bargain price of $14. But I went back to
> order two more and
> they raised the price and I got one Kenda and something else from China.
>
> Moss's inner tubes suck.
>
> Just from these developments alone we can see that the world is going to
> hell in a handbasket.
>
> I have the same issue trying to find decent bicycle inner tubes BTW.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net
> [mailto:spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
> 60bugeye@cebridge.net
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:17 AM
> To: Bob Spruck; spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Source for Wire Wheels
>
> I donb t know about what chrome wire wheels you were looking at byt the
> dayton chrome wire wheels on the BJ8 I just bought have tubes and bands...
> Every www wheel I have seen, chrome or painted, has had tubes and bands
> EXCEPT for a WW they make that is tubeless but the price is astronomical
> and
> the individual o rings they use on each spoke must become a nightmare
> sometime down the road.
>
> Leo
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