Edit: you stop punctures with the tires, not tubes. Use a thin tire with no/minimal puncture belts and you get flats regardless of tube type. Use a tough tire and thin vs regular tube seems not to matter, in my experience.


I like the Vittoria tubes as well; Michelin and Kenda seem fine also. The only tube I haven't liked is Specialized. Their presta valve often sticks.

The Conti ultra-lite tubes come with removable valve cores, which I find annoying and I use loc-tite blue to seal them.