{"id":17914,"date":"2014-05-26T22:49:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T02:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17914"},"modified":"2014-05-26T22:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T02:49:38","slug":"failed-fatbike-superlight-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/failed-fatbike-superlight-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed Fatbike Superlight Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/salsa_mukluk_2\/IMG_7933.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Decayed Q-Tubes Superlight 26 x 2.4-2.75&quot; after roughly one year of use with a polyester ribbon rim strip. This was at an opening in a Surly Holy Rolling Darryl rim.\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/105997-2\/IMG_7933.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Removing 1.3 Pounds of Rotating Weight\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/05\/removing-1-3-pounds-of-rotating-weight\/\">Just about a year ago I switched the fatbike to using Q-Tubes Superlight 26 x 2.4-2.75&#8243; tubes with polyester ribbon rim strips to save weight.<\/a> This worked, but today I suffered a flat at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigandnr.com\/parksandtrails\/Details.aspx?type=SPRK&amp;id=484\">Poto<\/a>\u00a0as a result. It turns out that the place where the tube bulges up through the rim holes has decayed, and these eventually fail to pinholes. I&#8217;d patched one a month or two ago, and today&#8217;s flat was another.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the issue is simply from stretching, ozone exposure, UV exposure, or perhaps even the soap used when washing my bike. I mostly suspect UV or ozone, but I don&#8217;t know enough about failure modes of this material to say for sure.<\/p>\n<p>I still feel these tubes are the best low cost option for lightening up a fatbike, so I&#8217;ll end up ordering a few more, swapping the existing tubes, and going for another year. Even at $20\/year in tubes it&#8217;s still a lot cheaper than going with some carbon fiber rims.\u00a0Although, some carbon fiber rims set up tubeless (with <a title=\"Hope Pro 2 Evo Fatsno Hubs\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/27\/hope-pro-2-evo-fatsno-hubs\/\">the Hope Fatsno hubs picked up in November<\/a>) would solve a whole bunch of problems at once&#8230; They&#8217;d just cost a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about a year ago I switched the fatbike to using Q-Tubes Superlight 26 x 2.4-2.75&#8243; tubes with polyester ribbon rim strips to save weight.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/failed-fatbike-superlight-tube\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Failed Fatbike Superlight Tube<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17916,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17914\/revisions\/17916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}