Originally Posted by Aljan
I usually use Vittoria tubes and have never had a problem with them, but for a change I switched to Continental. I have never had a tube blowout on me before but I've had two Continental tubes blow in about two weeks, one I controlled, the other I stacked. My tyres recommend I inflate them to between 115-145psi. I usually inflate to 120. But at 120 the Continental tubes blew out! I have a couple of spare Continental tubes and am just about to toss em, but before I do is this a problem specific to Continental or have I just had two bad eggs?
I had the same story, just change the names. Usually use Torelli tubes. Switched to Michelin. Blew out 4 tubes in 2 weeks. Switched back to Torelli. No problem. I've got to believe that despite being "commodities" there are some manufacturing or size or strength differences among tubes that create these wild swings in reliability.