rossjm11 wrote:WMW wrote:rossjm11 wrote:Side not, Supersonics are too light, I have one fail in a crit and the other failed shortly after.
Guys!!! Tubes don't fail unless the "container" is violated, period. There is no stress on them if they are properly installed. Latex tubes do not fail from heat (Zipp knows this). What they are trying to prevent is people who don't know how to install a tube and tire, blaming them and suing them. It's much easier to botch a latex tube installation. You get a little under the bead and it survives in that state until you add heat and cornering forces... boom!
Disagree, it was not a pinch flat. The tube could not handle being ridden hard at 105psi.
Respectfully....you do realize that latex tubes are not made from the same material as prophylactics???
I suppose a condom can fail when "riding" hard, but not a latex bicycle tube. In other words, unlike sex, there is no such thing as riding a bicycle tube hard...if installed correctly and ridden correctly (e.g. not riding your brakes on downhills), then a latex tube will be no more or less resistant to fail compared to a butyl tube.
Yes, we see the warning on carbon clinchers not to use latex but said warnings are no different then the lawyer tabs on forks we all must put up with....a result of litigious unskilled "cyclists" who were doing it wrong and then blame the manufacturer for their own user error. EM3