Originally Posted by
leob1
Find your self an honest to goodness Hardware store, most likely an ACE or TrueValue, there you will have a much better chance of finding what you need. If your lucky it they will even have it in stainless steel.
Don't ever use Stainless steel unless you spend all of your time traversing swamps. Grade 8 carbon steel has a tensile strength of 150,000psi. 18-8 stainless is 80,000psi; just over half. And, it has a nasty habit of galling. Which is fine if you never want to remove said tire. Ever again. I work in an environment where we have to use stainless. We don't want to. We have to. There are exotics that will work but they're custom made and cost more than your bike. Yes, this is an old post but if I stumbled across it, someone else could.