Originally Posted by
dscheidt
I've seen lots of defective tubes in the last three or five years. Poor valves stem to tube bonding; and not just on presta valve tubes, but on schraeder ones.
I don't buy that many tubes, so it's a pretty negligible cost to use good ones, from Michelin or Schwalb or conti.
+1
Including a half dozen OEM tubes that blew within a couple days of being inflated when the bikes were prepped. Bikes are prepped over the winter and ready to go out the door in the spring so these bikes were just sitting in a rack. Better there then after being delivered to a customer.