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Originally Posted by Cicli
I don’t understand how a thinner tube adds puncture resistance. I have taken note of the thickness of tire and it is thicker than a tube. Seems anything that goes through a tire will go through a thin tube. Maybe not a big thick slime type tube but a thin one, yes. You all do put a tire on one side of a tube and a rim on the other right?
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Puncture resistance is about more than just tire/tube thickness. For instance, latex tube are more puncture resistant than butyl tubes, because they are more elastic - if an object were to punch through a tire casing and read the tube, a latex tube may simply be stretched around the object, when a less stretchy butyl tube is more likely to be punctured. Latex tubes are also more pinch-flat resistant than butyl tubes for the same reason.