When I ordered 650b Foss tubes I received 26 inchers, and assumed that it
was intentional on Riv's part. I subsequently had a lot of problems with
them. Guess I should have given a call and asked.
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:47:07 PM UTC-7, William wrote:
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Pulled the tubes last winter when switching to studded tires. The tubes
had stretched enough they wouldn't fit the slightly smaller tires. Plus,
they were really stiff. Never got around to putting them back on.
Eric Platt
St. Paul, MN
On Jan 24, 2013 2:47 PM, "William" wrote:
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Rene
Last time I was there at Riv HQ I scanned the garage-sale leftovers table.
I scored an A Homer Hilsen cap that only fits freakishly large domes like
mine. Under the table were the Foss tubes for $10. They were mostly or
all 650B x Fat. I asked Vince about it and he said that it seems t
I finally got the freetime to get my 650B narrow Foss tubes installed.
It's on the Hilsen with Hetres. I did a 25 miler in the Berkeley hills
today and the Hetres ran as plump, cushy, smooth and rocket fast as usual.
I noted no difference in stiffness than when I've run the same tires with
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I've been using them for about 4 months on my daily commuter / Marathon
Supreme 40's. The web instructions are odd but improving. You don't need to
use the blue rim tape provided though I did I wouldn't again. The valve
stem isn't threaded, there is no nut to thread over and lock down. Some
ins
Don't have the Foss tubes on a bike right now. Was going to use them
year round on a winter bike, but they were awfully tough to get on a
rim in cool (freezing or below) weather. They also didn't want to fit
under a slightly smaller studded tire.
Which comes to my other complaint - I personally
You may know already, and forgive me if you do, but for the longest, I
didn't know: Schwalbe tubes have the bonus feature of a removable
stem. I spent many months trying to find punctures in my Schwalbe
tubes until I finally recognized that the problem was a slow leak from
a loose valve stem (which
I have been using them for a couple of months now. Reviewed the movie that
shows how to install them (just do a search online and you'll find it) as
well as some additional clips that show how to fix punctures using a match
instead of patches. I'm currently using them on the Betty and the
Hunqapill
We have goatheads galore in Stockton, don't know why you would be free
from them in the Bay Area.
Bill
On Feb 1, 2:52 pm, William wrote:
> I wont be able to tell you about goatheads, most likely, since I don't know
> what a goathead is. Whenever I see the word my brain for some reason wants
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They provide protection in the sense I didn't know something was amiss
until the tire actually went flat. Maybe if I was really in-tune with
my tire pressure I'd have noticed my bi-weekly fill up needed a little
more air than usual. Patching is easy though. I think as long as I
use air in my tir
Oh! See? When you said "goatheads are from the devil", here I had a
mental image of a Satanic pentagram and a goat's actual head on a heavy
metal t-shirt. Like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_of_Baphomet
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulus_terrestris -- scroll down
for the puncture culprits.
I didn't mean you in particular, but anyone who can say how well these
tubes do against the above, please post your results onlist.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:52 PM, William wrote:
> I wont be able to te
I wont be able to tell you about goatheads, most likely, since I don't know
what a goathead is. Whenever I see the word my brain for some reason wants
to say "GO-THEDD". It sounds like a prickly clump of plant detritus. Do I
have those in the SFBay area? I think probably not. Every flat I'v
I'd be particularly interested in learning if they provide any
protection against goatheads
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:37 PM, William wrote:
> I'm just about to switch to them. I finally got my first flat with my SOMA
> XPress (which to my eye appears to be the 650B Pasela TG). I had gone
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I'm just about to switch to them. I finally got my first flat with my SOMA
XPress (which to my eye appears to be the 650B Pasela TG). I had gone
>5000miles with zero and didn't want to jinx it. Now that perfection has
been broken, I'll switch out to the Foss tubes I have here in my parts box.
It was not a goof - it was an unintended feature.
Still, these tubes seem interesting. Could be very nice for winter
riding when I don't want to worry about a flat tire. Can one assume
the rim strip is sticky on both sides to prevent tube creep and
possible problems with tearing out the valve?
When engineers do goofy things they will defend them to the death! Or
the next day, when they quietly de-goof the whole operation.
Philip
Philip Williamson
www.biketinker.com
On Sep 23, 7:37 pm, Way Rebb wrote:
> Oops, I meant to put a smily thing or an LOL after the engineer
> comment. :)
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Oops, I meant to put a smily thing or an LOL after the engineer
comment. :)
On Sep 23, 6:43 pm, cyclotourist wrote:
> Engineers don't do goofy things, but then they hand it off to the marketing
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> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Way Rebb wrote:
> > The blue tape
Engineers don't do goofy things, but then they hand it off to the marketing
department...
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Way Rebb wrote:
> The blue tape is rim liner. I took off the old liner, cleaned up the
> rim a bit and put on the new. Besides being a really nice shade of
> blue I figure
The blue tape is rim liner. I took off the old liner, cleaned up the
rim a bit and put on the new. Besides being a really nice shade of
blue I figured it's all engineered to work together (and engineers
don't do goofy things).
I even looked around the net a bit before I bought them which led to
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OK, I now have the right size tube in my possession, but am still perplexed
about what to do with the role of two sided tape. What have others done -
glued it to the rim tape, replaced the rim tape, glued it to the inside of
the tire, created another dust catcher on a shelf, or tossed it out?
Michael,
I just received a Riv box o' FOSS for my Marathon Supreme 40's
They shipped 700 x 1.35-1.75 so it looks like you have extra large.
I don't know if I have to replace my Velox with the included apparent rim
strips but will find out soon.
Mitch
San Luis Obispo, CA
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I would call Rivendell up and ask them
On Sep 13, 4:39 pm, Michael Hechmer wrote:
> I ordered one of these new Foss Tubes from RBW (forgot to order the
> proprietary patces, dang) It arrived with a set of warnings, and a role of
> two sided tape that looks like maybe a new fangled rim
> I did some quick googling and saw some complaints about the tubes blowing at
> high pressures
This shouldn't be a problem with those of us that use fat tires at
lower pressures.
S.
On Aug 25, 7:55 pm, Dan Abelson wrote:
> I did some quick googling and saw some complaints about the tubes blo
I did some quick googling and saw some complaints about the tubes blowing at
high pressures and some other issues. I think while the idea sounds good, I
will wait until it is more mature before spending that much on tubes or
putting them on a winter bike.
Dan Abelson
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:37
Agree with Dan. Seem to be a good choice for winter bikes. Or maybe
under the Schwalbe Kojaks (see other thread).
Eric Platt
St. Paul, MN
On Aug 25, 2:48 pm, Dan Abelson wrote:
> Interesting. Pricey but I could see using them on my winter bike. A flat
> when it is 0 is no fun.
> On Aug 25, 20
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