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TPU tubes for #cycling - Yay or Nay? Sources? (aus.social)

submitted 2 months ago by MrAndrewD@aus.social to c/bicycling@lemmy.world

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TPU tubes for #cycling - Yay or Nay? Sources?

Anyone using TPU tubes? Would you recommend them?

I note online Chinese vendors (Temu/Ali) are about half the price of my local bike store for them. Anyone have experience with purchasing/brands for Chinese TPU tubes?

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[–] horse@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Yay. I ride Pirelli ones, but RideNow from Aliexpress are fine too. They are lighter and better rolling, more compact and I feel they are less likely to puncture (and if they do, more likely to puncture with a slow leak so you might get home just by re-inflating it). There are no downsides compared to butyl imo, besides the price (which isn't an issue if you get cheap ones from China) and I puncture so rarely I don't care about the added cost.