Tube for long life in the camelbak

Haakon

Keeps on digging
So is there is any particular tube or tube type that would be happy being folded up and living in a pack permanently?

I decided for an unknown reason to check the one I’ve had folded neatly up in my camelbak, and it had rotted and split at a fold. That would have been annoying had I needed it on the trail...

This one was a couple of years old... Any super dooper tunes around that wouldn’t need to be changed out without ever being used...?



Check your spare tube people!!
 

Tim_the_Clyde

Likes Dirt
Good point.

Been caught out before with a tube that lived in a bag so long that it had rubbed a hole through the side.


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Haakon

Keeps on digging
Mine wasn’t worn through, the rubber had degraded with age and where it was folded over was where it was cracked.

Mind you, I had rolled it up tight with no air in it so it was compact. That meant sharp folds...
 

Haakon

Keeps on digging
I’m thinking a good spray with silicone spray and into a bag - keep the rubber from drying out.
 

Lazmo

Old and hopeless
Ride more often, in more dodgy places, run lower pressures so your tubeless burps regularly, constantly graze rocks, smash edges and ledges, ride through thorns, glass, that sort of thing. Basically you need to have a flat every so often. It grounds you. Then your spare tube won't have a chance to rot.
 
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safreek

*******
Mine wasn’t worn through, the rubber had degraded with age and where it was folded over was where it was cracked.

Mind you, I had rolled it up tight with no air in it so it was compact. That meant sharp folds...
Bloody K mart tubes
 

beeb

Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Anyone tried the Tubolito ones? They look like a good solution, but I haven't been able to get over the price tag yet.
 

Flow-Rider

Burner
Big W sell cheap tubes too, I find when the tubes get old you can stretch them cross ways and they tear easily.
 

ChrisJC

Likes Bikes and Dirt
If it were a Sram tube you’d need to do the following every 50 hours:
Carefully remove tube from backpack using Sram black rubber gloves.
Check for any wear or cuts.
Remove valve corr using Sram valve core removal tool. Discard valve core.
Inject 1.765mls of Sram super tube lube and install new valve core.
Inflate and check for leaks.
Roll tube and place in a zip lock bag,
place ziplock bag inside another zip lock bag.
Place tube with 2 zip lock bags inside another zip lock bag incase 1 or both of the others fail.
Clean bags with isopropyl alcohol and place carefully inside backpack.
 

ozzybmx

taking a shit with my boobs out
https://www.hibike.com/schwalbe-tub...e-40mm-220g-pd3c2db278f1b0fc4dc03e0c86360dbe2

2.93 Euro each for Schwalbe 27.5/29 MTB tubes with removable valve core. Good quality tubes for under 5 bucks. Fits all my 29, 27.5 and my big volume 700c gravel tyres.
Easier to replace when they get old if they are not expensive.

Several years back I went for a long spell with no puncture, prob 2 years and when I did need the tube, it was cracked from UV damage... poking out of the rear pocket on a cycling jersey for many hundred of hours being killed by the sun.
 

Warp

Likes Dirt
I just wrap them in cling wrap. I'm not sure for how long it works, though. Up here in tropical NT tubes rot kinda quick.

All of my bikes road bike included are tubeless so I have taken as a negative point of tubeless that it will make you spend money on tubes you will not need.
 

dancaseyimages

Mountain bike pornographer
I have my tube wrapped around the pump and levers I carry, no sharp bends etc. With a rubber band makes a neat package and never had any issue with the cheap tubes. Had been almost a year without a flat in Canberra so all seasons in my bag, still holding air and fine.
 

ozzybmx

taking a shit with my boobs out
All of my bikes road bike included are tubeless so I have taken as a negative point of tubeless that it will make you spend money on tubes you will not need.
Same here but wouldn't leave the house without at least one spare tube though. Sidewall cuts, large unsealable holes, tubeless valve sheared off by a rock, branch through the wheel that broke a spoke which then pushed into the wheel and pierced the tubeless tape... then the old fave of dried up sealant.
 

pink poodle

気が狂っている男
Just drop the tube into a zip lock bag filled with armouroil . Should keep your tube sweet for millions of years.
 
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