[ExI] 26 inch tube

[William Flynn Wallace]

If there is a fold or crimp, as there must be, then you might have
difficulty getting the whole thing inflated as air might not get by the
crimp well.  bill w

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It would work temporarily, if you could get it inside the tire and
> inflated, but over the long term there would be extra stress at the fold,
> and you could possibly get a new leak.
>
> -Kelly
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:11 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
>> Hey here’s a fun one for you.  I ride a recumbent bicycle nearly every
>> day, not to get somewhere in particular but just to ride and exercise.  If
>> I get a thorn puncture, I carry a spare tube rather than patches.  Patches
>> work but tubes aren’t expensive, and it is typically over a thousand miles
>> between flats.  It is always the back tire on a recumbent, since all my
>> weight is over the back tire.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yesterday I had a flat close to home, longer than I wanted to walk, so I
>> got out the spare tube only to discover that they had packaged a 26 inch
>> tube in a box labelled 20 inch, so of course the tube didn’t fit.  I walked
>> the bike home mumbling and cursing a pox on Walmart for mislabeling the
>> tube.
>>
>>
>>
>> Then it occurred to me: that longer tube might have worked anyway.  It
>> would have a section which folded back on itself, which would make the tire
>> unbalanced, but for low speeds such as on a typical recumbent, that
>> wouldn’t matter much.
>>
>>
>>
>> Question: can anyone think of a reason why a longer inner tube wouldn’t
>> work?
>>
>>
>>
>> spike
>>
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