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Old 09-09-06 | 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by byte_speed
O ring??? *heads to garage*

Never had a problem there.

Has anyone else experienced tires inflated with CO2 slowly losing CO2?

I've had two tires go completely flat before my next ride a couple of days later, but couldn't find the smallest leak after I got them off the bike and they worked fine when reinflated with air. I have also had a couple go soft, but not flat. A fellow biker at my office said he had experienced this also.

CO2 has molecules that are small enough to escape between the tube's butyl rubber molecules. So a tire inflated with CO2 goes flat quicker than one inflated with air.
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