Lightest Road Bike Inner Tubes
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Lightest road bike inner tubes. These are his first thoughts and opinions check out our other channels. Latex is lighter than butyl rubber but also more fragile with a thinner wall. The market for standard inner tubes has become very competitive in the last couple of years. They re available in 700c x 30mm which will fit.
We put both the mountain and road bike versions on the scales and were impressed with the results. Per wheel converts mavic x517 x317 x225 x139 f519 dt rims. Dave talks you through what might be the lightest inner tubes around. When buying bike tubes there are two primary compatibility considerations.
With a set arriving in the office we just had to put them on the scales to see how light they are and talk through some of the key details of this standout. High tech inner tubes from swiss company eclipse. Their offering includes multiple sizes across two weights of tubes. The puncture protection is equally outstanding.
Available now throughout much of europe tubolito is hopeful they will have their full range of road and mountain bike tubes on sale in north america in the coming months. Compared to standard rubber tubes you ll save almost 70g of rotating weight per wheel. Instagram road cc twitter roadcc facebook. Tubo road is 2x more resistant to punctures than a standard tube.
The light s tubo is a spare only tube with a removable stem to help it back down as small as possible. Austrian company tubolito s unique orange tubo inner tubes might be the last port of call if you re looking to shed a few precious grams from your road bike with a potential weight saving of 120g when you replace regular inner tubes. A punctured latex tube may not be repairable. Road gravel and cyclocross bike tubes are primarily 700c in diameter though there are also an increasing number of bikes spec d with smaller 650b wheels which in turn require a corresponding smaller size bike tube.
At 125 grams each they aren t the lightest compared to a road tube but cyclocross tires are a bit wider and beefier than a thin road tube. The world s lightest inner tubes. Ready for disc brakes and rim brakes tubo road easily fits 18 to 28mm width tires.