My 59 Clem H came to me second (or third) hand and I was pleased to receive it with Schwalbe Big Apple 50mm tires. It seems to be accepted wisdom that the Kenda tires originally fitted to Clems are not on many people's wish list. After a couple thousand miles in my use, and who knows how many before, the Big Apples were ready for retirement. So last night I fit up a pair of Maxxis Torch 29x2.1" tires (a ride report will follow). To my consternation, I found both wheels equipped with Kenda inner tubes in a 700x35-40 (also marked 27x1-3/8) size. These skinny little tubes looked completely undernourished coming out of the 2-inch wide Schwalbe tires. Fitting them into the even wilder Maxxis tires seemed seriously inadvisable. Fortunately, I had on hand a pair of Panaracer tubes in the 29x1.75-2.35 size. Everything went together in ducky fashion.
With that preamble, here's my question(s): Was I simply a lucky fellow to get a couple thousand completely trouble-free miles from significantly undersized Kenda Tubes in the balloon-profile Schwalbe tires? Or do I owe a debt of gratitude and my thanks to the apparently excellent elasticity of the Kenda tubes? Or is it a bit of each? Seriously, is a size mismatch of this order between tube and tire a serious issue? ...or is there more tolerance than one might expect in "matching" tubes to tires? Bob, whose tubes were being blown out of proportion, Sharp -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ab3e2064-3c78-4491-b254-beefb38270a4o%40googlegroups.com.
