Originally Posted by
prj71
At $4-$5/tube I'll never spend that much on tubes in my lifetime.
And how many flats do you get per year? Do you live where there are
goatheads? Even with armored tires and sealant, the little buggers get through. And I avoid Slime tubes because they are expensive and mostly ineffective against goatheads. And the Slime makes it difficult to patch.
Like I said above, I threw out a tube with 13 patches on it. Except for the fact that the valve stem was cut, I consider that to be a serviceable tube. I've had tubes with as many as 25 patches. That's up to $125 in tubes if I didn't patch them. That's still not chump change.