Anyone running Latex Tubes with their Zipp 404s?
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Some of the posts in this thread are downright hilarious!
The inner tube, is placed in a strictly confined space, defined by the rim and the tire surfaces, the pressure in the inner tube is not due to the tube restricting the air to a certain volume, it is due to the tube's volume being limited by the rim and tire around it. As long as the tire & rim envelope is intact the tube will have the very same volume and as such it can not explode. Only when the tire & rim envelope is damaged can the tube's volume grow and possibly reach a volume which would stretch the material above its elastic limits (which for latex are anyway higher than for butyl rubber).
Bottom line, unless you pinched the inner tube or the tire/rim envelope has been damaged you can not blow, pun not intended, any inner tube which has been correctly installed.
The inner tube, is placed in a strictly confined space, defined by the rim and the tire surfaces, the pressure in the inner tube is not due to the tube restricting the air to a certain volume, it is due to the tube's volume being limited by the rim and tire around it. As long as the tire & rim envelope is intact the tube will have the very same volume and as such it can not explode. Only when the tire & rim envelope is damaged can the tube's volume grow and possibly reach a volume which would stretch the material above its elastic limits (which for latex are anyway higher than for butyl rubber).
Bottom line, unless you pinched the inner tube or the tire/rim envelope has been damaged you can not blow, pun not intended, any inner tube which has been correctly installed.