Originally Posted by
Lemond1985
It almost seems like a profit model. Build inner tubes that blow out mysteriously. The customer blames himself, and then has to go buy more inner tubes, probably manufactured at the same factory. Hopefully bicycle inner tubes are not all being made at one huge factory somewhere. Because if they are, we had better get used to this kind of thing.
Not much of a profit model. This thread alone has probably cost Kenda a future customer or several. I've used many Kenda tubes and never had a defect. Same can be said for most brands but sometimes some bad ones make their way to the customer.