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Inner Tubes for Wider Road Tires

Old 11-13-19, 09:05 AM
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Inner Tubes for Wider Road Tires

I’m running Conti GP5000 clincher tires in a 28mm width and am looking for reasonably lightweight inner tubes for same. I need 60mm valve stems as well. Is anyone aware of, or have experience with, inner tubes of this size? Confusingly, the Conti 28 tubes only fit up to a 25mm tire.
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presta or schrader?

I'm assuming presta cuz I use schrader & like long stems which I think are usually just 48mm
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Originally Posted by Cyclefiend
I’m running Conti GP5000 clincher tires in a 28mm width and am looking for reasonably lightweight inner tubes for same. I need 60mm valve stems as well. Is anyone aware of, or have experience with, inner tubes of this size? Confusingly, the Conti 28 tubes only fit up to a 25mm tire.
Rubber stretches, the smaller tube will be fine.
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28mm is "wider"?

Anyways, how about the Schwalbe SV15 in 60mm: https://www.biketiresdirect.com/prod...tube?v=00060mm
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https://www.jensonusa.com/Q-Tubes-St...0C-Presta-Tube
https://www.jensonusa.com/Q-Super-Light-700C-Tubes

Available with a 60mm presta valve, 28-32mm width (although you could just use the ones labeled for 23-25 too).
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I just received some Conti 25-32 tubes (available with 42 or 60mm valves) from competitive cyclist. I was previously using 18-25mm tubes in my ~30mm (measured) tires and the only issue was that sealant didn’t work as well as it used to with ~27mm tires.
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Originally Posted by Cyclefiend
I’m running Conti GP5000 clincher tires in a 28mm width and am looking for reasonably lightweight inner tubes for same. I need 60mm valve stems as well. Is anyone aware of, or have experience with, inner tubes of this size? Confusingly, the Conti 28 tubes only fit up to a 25mm tire.
As it turns out, and a big thanks to “smashndash” who commented, Conti does offer their Conti 28 in a 700x25-28mm size. Just ordered, and already recieved, a few via Amazon.
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