So having a little freak out and need the expertise of the aero crr tire people. Bought my normal vittoria latex tube from Amazon but they shipped me a 25/28 instead of 19/23. I’m running a jet plus rear wheel with conti gp4000s tire. Should I roll with these? Use my older latex tube that has an area where it bunches up from being stretched in the tire? I’ve used them for training but never racing. Hoping my lbs has a tube so I don’t have to worry but it never seems like they carry latex for some reason. Thanks Jackmott, Tom A, rruff and anyone else!
You’ll be fine. I do this with the front wheel of my TT bike. I run a 25-28c Vittoria tube in a 23mm Vittoria Open Corsa SC II on a HED Jet 9. For every other wheel that I have (all 25mm+) I am running 29-38c Challenge tubes in 25mm Vittoria Open Corsa SC II tires. You’ll find that the larger tube will tend to lose pressure less quickly due to less deformation, so there’s a plus.
Yeah o remember reading it gets to be 25-26 mm when on the rim. I’d rather run a slightly larger tube than an older one. But hopefully i can get a normal tube today and ill use that one for training.
I am assuming you ordered prime and chose the 51mm option instead of the 700x25/28 option? My vittoria tubes showed up on Tuesday similar situation, but running s-works turbo 24s so didn’t freak out too much, but was pissed about the lack of clarity on amazon’s part. Will also be in TN racing, but CHOO 70.3 Good luck at knoxville.
I did! And trying to explain it to the lady on the phone made it worse! I told them they needed to change the ad to make it clear. Now let’s see if they actually do.
Call and complain. They refunded my money. It’s their ad that’s incorrect so seems like they’re taking responsibility for it. Super annoying but at least Amazon is good about fixing things, even though it doesn’t get us a new tube which is what I really wanted/needed.