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03-22-13, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker

Kleng, that is very interesting. I have always agreed with what you say about the ride quality improvement of latex tubes, but I was not aware of the puncture protection and actually thought the opposite all these years. Would you mind saying more about this, please?

Latex is more elastic that butyl tubes so they stretch around the penetrating object, when I used vittoria latex tubes with clinchers I never had a puncture.

Here is a good article from Schwalbe

http://www.schwalbe.com/gbl/en/techn...k&tn_subPoint=

Last edited by kleng; 03-22-13 at 09:38 AM.

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