Tubular tire aging is discussed here: http://branfordbike.com/articles/tubular-tires-pg87.htm
--- On Thu, 5/13/10, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> wrote: From: Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> Subject: [RBW] Re: 650B dead or alive? To: "RBW Owners Bunch" <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 11:13 AM Now I feel like a crackpot, which isn't an unfamiliar feeling for me, in case you were wondering! My original post suggested a modest "stockpile" of two rims and four tires. Not exactly a lifetime supply to get one through the apocalypse, but enough to get one through a temporary shortage or the inventory bottlenecks that frequently affect the supply of bike parts (it was nearly impossible to get 27"/630 tires of ANY kind in the summer of 2008, for example). Tires and tubes will keep for a long time in a cool, dark, dry place. I think it helps to keep them in a plastic bag, too. I have heard that some old Italian racer types would "age" their sew-ups under controlled conditions for a number of years, as they would a bottle of wine, apparently because they believed that aging improved the tires in some way. On May 12, 4:56 am, Jorgito <esp...@guagua.org> wrote: > Yikes, I'll have to add wheels and tires to my hoard of incandescent > light bulbs. And hi, by the way; I'm regularly here reading but this > is my first time posting. How long will hoarded tires and tubes keep? > > On May 12, 1:33 am, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > The discussion about the new Pacenti 650B tires momentarily ventured > > into commentary on "the future of 650B". I thought this was worth a > > discussion of its own. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
