Originally Posted by
MrTuner1970
Can you find where the leak is? Airing up your tires before each ride? Checking for foreign objects stuck in the tire?
I pumped up the tube and check the valve while it was out of the rim.
Can't tell. Just a typical slow leak I guess. Problem is, it's my 3rd already.
Checked the tires and inside the tire when I removed the tube.
Nothing on or in the tire, though it does have it's nicks.
I ride New York City and Suburb area roads.
Always lots of debris, glass, hazards, etc...but what I've gotten 3 times are slow leaks.
I use road tubeless on my main bike, but have regular tube clinchers on my other RB. They are Continental tubes, and have been on the bike since July 2009. (I don't ride this bike that much except in the winter, but I wouldn't hesitate to take off on a 100-mile ride with these tubes.) I've had good luck with the Continental tubes.
With Conti tires going on the bike in a few weeks, Conti tubes would be my first consideration.
All the tubes I've bought have had threaded valves. I'd guess the pump nozzle would "grab onto" these better than non-threaded valves. Just guessing, as I've not had the option to even buy non-threaded
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If I remember reading correctly, some pumps might not work well with threaded valves?
Or that the valves could get stripped or something like that?