Originally Posted by
mike
I have never seen any need for replacing tubes. I have tubes from 50 year old bicycles that still work fine.
I have to admit, though that all my tubes are the old black rubber tubes, no latex or anything else.
Hehe,...you've got me then!
The tires/tubes on my 1987 Schwinn Cimarron are original, as it's been in storage for 23 years or so and bike is 25 years old. It's been stored in an unheated garage the last 7 years, ....inside house before that.
I got her out of storage several weeks ago and cleaned off all the dust, and removed the gel seat cover and added a Thudbuster LT to ease the blow on my "softenafied" fanny!
The knobby tires are getting changed out today to a pair of inverted tread Serfas Drifter 26 X 2 , more suited to the road work i've been doing the last few weeks to get some exercize and tone back into me! At almost 56 i could use it!
I've been riding it the last few weeks as the tires/tubes pumped right up and have been holding presure fine.........
.......i figure i can sneak new tubes in when the originals finally bite the dust!
BTW, if you missed my adding substaintial support added dust sealing to my Thudbuster LT, you can read about it here in the Mechanics forum:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...of-As-Possible!
Note: The gel seat is now off,.....saved over 320 grams!
The seat i'm using (sans gel seat) is the original shown here, but not showing the added Thusdbuster LT:
