Well that was unexpected...

[Veloo]

Hit a big pothole with the rear wheel today. Confirmed a slow leak in the tire tonight. It's a latex tube and I really haven't used them before if you don't count the used wheels I bought 20 years ago that came with them.
I started pumping up the tube to find the leak. The tube was expanding uniformly like a butyl tube then suddenly

SHOOOOOMP!

[sales guy]

Super normal on latex tubes when they are inflated outside of a tire/rim.

[Black Dog]

Originally Posted by sales guy

Super normal on latex tubes when they are inflated outside of a tire/rim.

This exactly.

[Louis]

Slap a $7000 price tag on that thing and sell it to the cardiology department of your local hospital. Tell them it's a size XXL.

[Ken Robb]

Originally Posted by Louis

Slap a $7000 price tag on that thing and sell it to the cardiology department of your local hospital. Tell them it's a size XXL.

Too funny!

[NateM]

Its very hard to find a slow leak pinhole in a latex tube.Water test will not show it cause it only leaks at higher pressure which as you know now over expands the tube.Some say this ruins it.I have a bag full of these slow leak tubes

[froze]

Even a low cost butyl tube will do that if expanded too much on the outside of the tire.

One of the reasons I don't like latex is due to the difficulty of finding tiny leaks which frustrates the crap out of me trying to find it to repair it but can't.

[Veloo]

Good to know. For this one, I was able to find the pinhole in water but reading up on the repair recommendations to use another piece of latex resulted in me just throwing in a new latex tube.

[froze]

Originally Posted by Veloo

Good to know. For this one, I was able to find the pinhole in water but reading up on the repair recommendations to use another piece of latex resulted in me just throwing in a new latex tube.

And this is one of the reasons I don't ride on latex anymore because I'm a tightwad and can see the rational sense on replacing a perfectly good and expensive tube due to a tinier than a pin hole I can't find. Combine that with what I've found them to be more fragile against flats than butyl which screams against all their advertising saying that latex are more flat resistant? Well, not in my experience.

Has anyone tried the Panaracer Rair tube? if so what's the thought on those?

[Black Dog]

Originally Posted by Veloo

Good to know. For this one, I was able to find the pinhole in water but reading up on the repair recommendations to use another piece of latex resulted in me just throwing in a new latex tube.

Park patch and done.

[Duende]

Originally Posted by black dog

park patch and done.

+1