Right now I have four pairs of hetres that are hermetically sealed in an industrial mayonnaise jar in my basement. I also have four pairs of pari motos on the way. I eventually will hoard 4 pairs of every known 650b tire known to mankind.
Also I have an extra unused 650b wheelset. I have two hubsets that I want to have built up for my 650b stockpile. Funny you say? Go ahead and laugh you fools. We'll see who's laughing after the 650b apocalypse. Ken On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Sean Whelan <strummer_...@yahoo.com>wrote: > 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<http://mc/compose?to=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<http://mc/compose?to=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-bunch@googlegroups.com<http://mc/compose?to=rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com> > . > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+ > unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<http://mc/compose?to=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-bunch@googlegroups.com<http://mc/compose?to=rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+ > unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<http://mc/compose?to=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<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- Where did the spring go? Where did my hormones go? Where did my energy go? Where did my go go? Where did the pleasure go? Where did my hair go? -- Ray Davies -- 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.
